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Who loves Paris in the fall? La Veep, Kamala Harris does. It appears Institute Pasteur got more than they bargained for when La Veep decided to throw in her French accent. Take a look.
Mon Dieu! It appears La Veep is placing great emphasis in Theeeee Plaaaannn. Capital “Teee”, Capital “Peee”. Did she brush up on this on the jet ride over the Atlantic? For added effect, she added some hand movements as well.
In government, we campaign with ‘The Plan. Uppercase T, uppercase P, ‘The Plan’! And then the environment is such we’re expected to defend ‘The Plan’ even when the first time we roll it out there may be some glitches and it’s time to re-evaluate and then do it again.”-Kamala Harris
Oui, oui, bien sur, Madame! I mean, after all, it worked for Hillary Clinton in the Deep South, didn’t it? She even went as far to say that she carries that hot sauce in her purse! I mean, she puts that $hit on everything. In fact, the more Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned in the Deep South, the more her accent came out. Who knew?
Back to La Veep. Seriously, where’s the outrage?
Cultural appropriation
— crg53 (@crg53) November 11, 2021
Nah. She’s talking to a mostly white audience so, c’est d’accord, n’est pas?
I know, I know. What is the big deal, right? I mean, why would The New York Post consider this “news”? I can hear our critics now…
(Le sigh. Add in the condescending tone here.) Conservative bloggers. We have other things to worry about. La Veep’s linguistics is not one of them.
When I speak French it’s with a fake French accent too. Ya’ll just jealous you can’t speak French & probably can’t speak English very well let alone any other language. We have bigger problems than an accent in this world!
— Elle Jolie (@Queenbathsheba7) November 11, 2021
I assure you, this is not jealousy. I know enough French to be dangereuse between 7 or so years in high school and college. Not even a bit of l’envie, mon cherie.
Look, we all do it. It’s easy to liken Kamala La Veep’s faux French to any situation we are in with someone who doesn’t speak our native tongue or regional accents. I know my New Jersey/New York accent slips back when I am talking amongst my family members and friends in that area of the U.S., along with the hand motions and a few Italian cuss words. But, Madone, this is our Vice President talking down to a bunch of scientists and sounding like une bouffonne. La Partie Scientifique! These are educated people, Kamala. No need to dumb down “Theee Plaaaaan” or “Zeee Plaaaaan”.
Vive la science, say the liberals to the uneducated minions who are so bête, they are making fun of La Veep’s channeling of her inner French girl. Les Deplorables, c’est très dommage. I mean, Kamala’s pronunciation is part of a scientific process according to CNN and it is a sign that she is indeed more intelligent than the average femme or something…
Not only does speech mimicry help people literally understand each other, in that it seems to help listeners decipher the words the speakers’ mouths are forming — there’s also some evidence that imitation may be a sign of increased emotional understanding. One 1999 New York University study found that the people who imitated others the most tended to be more empathetic than those who imitated less often.”-Melissa Dahl and Science of Us, via CNN
Empathetic? Kamala Harris? Socialist perspectives? Insert cackle here. Chaos at the U.S. southern borders? Insert cackle here. Tragedy in Afghanistan? You know the drill. Me cackle. Americans trapped in a country by the Taliban with no means of escape? C’est hilare, non?
What is even more problematic is the reason why La Veep was sent to la Paris in the first place. Remember that “clumsy” US-British submarine deal with Australia that overtook a French contract to sell subs to the Australian navy? Yeah. She’s there to apparently “smooth it over” with Marcon. That is “Zee Plan”, in uppercase, anyway.
Between her and a President that sleeps during conferences and passes gas in front of royalty we sure are a shining light for the free world.🙄
— John Eldridge (@JohnAndrewEldr1) November 11, 2021
What’s next? La Veep passing Le Grey Poupon from her Louis Vuitton purse?
— Len (@hawkeye_6329) November 11, 2021
Yikes. Insert cackle here. Yes, I said insert. Okay, I’m also going to quit while I am ahead of the game.
The truth about “Thee Plaaaan” is that Lady La Cringe and her old man boss, Pepé Le Pew, who sharts his pants and sniffs young women’s hair, do not have one. Dressing it up in a fake French accent only makes this glaringly worse. They are Les Incompetents. We are Les Miserables under this administration and the rest of the world knows it. Our left-leaning friends and the media will continue to make excuses for this folly. Kamala’s cackle and now, her fake accent? C’est La Veep.
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John Casteel says: We don’t all do it. And, I can tell you with great confidence and from a great deal of personal experience, that citizens of foreign lands are very appreciative when we don’t. No chance that the French were thankful for Harris’s sophomoric lingo.
gnome says: I do the Peter Sellers style french accent (Pink Pussycat) “Thye syubmyrine dyeal hyas the fryogs yupsyet”.
It syerves well to pyut the fryogs in their plyace.
Pardonnez-moi, but isn’t this the same France that has recently decided to revitalize its (dreaded) nuclear power industry? Ostensibly to speed up efforts to combat climate change, but actually “…to guarantee France’s energy independence, to guarantee our country’s electricity supply,,,” (https://www.power-eng.com/nuclear/reactors/france-to-build-new-nuclear-reactors-to-meet-climate-goals/) Wait until the Green Anons hear about this!
Silly les Americains, every Frenchman knows that the proper pronunciation is “Zee Plain.”
william penfield says: Clearly, Kamala is mocking Herve Villachaize from Fantasy Island. Why does she hate short people?
GWB says: Yes, a great many of us do add a little accent to our speaking when in a foreign country. Many of us don’t even notice it until later. We even do it in English*. And, yes, sometimes the native finds it condescending, depending on how it is done. If it’s done with the “if I say it louder and slower with an accent, they’ll understand me” method, it tends to offend. “HOW. MUCHO. FOR. ZEE. TOMAHTOES?”
(* On a French Club trip in high school, with other language clubs, we were sitting in the back of the bus, chatting, after crossing from England to France. I stopped everyone a ways in, and asked if anyone else noticed that ALL of us had picked up very slight London accents. All of us with an affinity for languages had simply adapted during our 3 days. [Three days, I might add, which led to our local tour director begging us to come back, since it was three days that were entirely sunny.] We didn’t find it so much in Italy, but France and Germany, yes.)
BTW, French is almost as bad as English in terms of not being a single accent/manner/pronunciation/word bucket. Canadians pronounce differently from French who are different from Parisians who are different from French in the Caribbean. I think Spanish is, also.
This isn’t as bad as some have made it out to be. But she does sound a little like she’s doing the louder/with accent bit as if her hearers are dense.
GWB says: And, of course, if you’re going to talk French accents, you have to go to Maurice Chevalier and his fabulous “Thank Heaven, For Little Girls”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TqSyvdqn9c
(Of course, his accent is genuine! And oh so good.)
Martin says: The only clever thing that Presidential candidate Biden did was to select Kamala Harris as his VP running mate.
It now appears to be a stroke of genius to prevent Congress from invoking the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to have him removed from Office due to mental incompetence.
Wfjag says: And, adding a public insult in return, Macron refused to give her the traditional kiss on each cheek. It looked like she was expecting one, and the French President bobbed around and she only got a hand shake.
President Trump and Chancellor Markel both got two cheek smacks. FLOTUSs Melania and Jill got gentlemanly, well done kisses of their hands.
Yes, the French President knows how to put on a show — and the entire world (outside our insular MSM) knows when he doesn’t put on one.
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