Culture clash!! The risks of using French phrases in English
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Oliver, Lina, and Eddie discuss how three small French words created a tempest of opinions in Earful Tower circles this month...
They also discuss communication between cultures and languages, the risks of "dumbing down" a children's book, and their book tour that's CURRENTLY HAPPENING in Australia.
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Find more about the Australian book tour here: https://theearfultower.com/2022/10/08/the-earful-tour-how-to-find-us-in-australia/
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Music by Pres Maxson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is season 13 of the Earful Tower podcast. I forgot the name of it after a few |
| 0:06.6 | episodes away. I'm really excited to kick off this season with the bang because it's going to be a bit |
| 0:11.5 | different right from the get-go, not least because I'm sitting in Australia, in Tasmania, the |
| 0:17.3 | little island at the bottom. To my left, Eddie G. Hello, hello, hello. Nice to have you on the show. |
| 0:23.7 | Nice to be here. To my right, Lena Norton G. |
| 0:26.7 | Hello. Known to many as lovely Lena. We figured the three of us together from our three |
| 0:33.3 | sort of separate perspectives would be able to talk over a topic that's been playing on all of |
| 0:38.0 | our minds this week about culture clashes when the French language, and any language, really, |
| 0:44.1 | sneaks into the English language and all the problems it can cause after a very big example |
| 0:49.8 | of this happened in our little world this week. It sounds like a fetter complete, don't you think? |
| 0:55.2 | Wait a minute. |
| 0:56.0 | Are you using that correctly? |
| 0:57.5 | I think that's a bit of a faux par. |
| 0:59.7 | You too. |
| 1:00.5 | Stop right now. |
| 1:01.6 | We'll save this for the episode after some music from Press Macon. |
| 1:04.8 | Music So season 13 of the show, which I can't believe, after the big season with Lena as a co-host. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.9 | Must be nice to step back for you. |
| 1:25.2 | Oh, blissful vacation time. You didn't get away very far. Not really. I'm right |
| 1:31.3 | here. This, the reason that the three of us are sitting in Australia is, uh, because Lena and I |
| 1:36.2 | are about to do a big book tour for our new book down the East Coast of Australia. We'll talk about |
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