The child is currently teaching herself German in a kind of protest at being forced to learn French. I swear this is nothing to do with me, @BristolBen
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I am not responsible for this! I swear!
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Yes, you! You’re rampant xenophobia has rubbed off on your child. By rejecting French, your toxic influence is depriving her of almost all culture worth knowing and condemning her to second rate English or German stuff.

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I am wounded by the injustice...
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Hey, they have Rilke and loads of great philosophers. Imagine home much fun she'll have reading Heidegger in the original German.
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Still wrong. It should be Dutch. Obviously.
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Dutch is marginally better than German, but that’s not saying much.
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Helen Pluckrose!!!!! There’s nothing likable about that tweet!


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My finger slipped!
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I can do a bit of conversational French, but I've never mastered the "disdain" tense. It always comes across as "genial condescension". Must be my accent.
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