Both, really. Maybe it helped that my first time was really only speaking to waitstaff or hotel employees, or pharmacists (I’d gotten a cold)? That first time my French was my worst, high school French and I’d been out of school 2 years (did not go to university right away). The next time I’d been to university and minored in French, and the last time I was with my wife’s family, who are French.
My experience in France has been closer to one of the blue colors. They seem to very much prefer when someone at least tries, even if they’re struggling.
It’s very helpful. One note, at least in the edition I had, they use endnotes instead of footnotes, so they’re at the back of the book. It’s not quite as helpful unless you use one or two bookmarks to keep your place as you go back and forth. The book itself is riveting, though, and just about every chapter ends on a cliffhanger (since it was originally serialized a chapter at a time in a newspaper) that makes you want to keep reading.
I feel like anon could’ve researched this online ahead of time
So was he saying he didn’t need to be paid anymore to be his friend or the friendship money was past due and the account needed to be settled for the friendship to continue?
Anon avoids a predator
In all my years I've never walked into a friends home and been offered a baguette or a fresh slice of focaccia.
Well then your friends suck
Are you sure this isn’t a scam?
This was nowhere near the only deadly airship disaster, nor was it the last, but that’s not really what ended airship travel. With the advances in airplanes by the end of World War II, lighter-than-air ships just couldn’t compete. Even postwar piston aircraft were cruising at more than 3 times the speed of most airships with range to make nonstop transatlantic crossings, and once the jet age really started to take hold in the ’50s it was all over. I mean, by the ’60s multiple countries had started supersonic passenger aircraft programs. Not a lot of success there, but still there were nowhere near enough customers to support commercial service on airships when faster, cheaper options existed.
But usually I’m pausing a video to try to read text that appeared too briefly in the video!
That would seem a little odd given the person behind it has listed their account as being on a PieFed instance.
@andrew_s@piefed.social do you know if your bot is/should be tracking PieFed communities?