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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 5, 2020 9:05:04 GMT
Certainly can, but much of the difficulty is in tenses which seem lost on conversation.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 9:11:19 GMT
They use the present a lot, which I found odd at first. There's me painstakingly trying to get the tenses right and being misunderstood, and Mrs Ootlg nattering away to the locals no problem.
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Post by mids on Feb 5, 2020 9:15:16 GMT
I did O Grade French at school. The only exam I ever failed.
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Hahaha... a few of them about too, believe it or not.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 5, 2020 14:51:25 GMT
My ability to speak French has deteriorated every year since I was 5, which was the year my parents put purely-anglophone me straight into French primary school for 9 months while my dad was on an academic sabbatical there. Unfortunately, immersion only works if you re-immerse every now and then. Instead I had English school French lessons which nagged about tenses and bored me silly so I made no effort, knowing that I knew more than everyone else. Until suddenly they knew more than me and I never put anything in the right tense and was failing my O-level. If only there'd been exams in Conversational-French-For-Toddlers rather than "Preparing You To Write A La Recherche Temps Perdu", eh...?
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Post by flatandy on Feb 5, 2020 14:52:27 GMT
This weird myth about the French being stand-offish usually comes from those who don't speak a word of the language. I thought it came from people who went on holiday to Paris and were surprised to find that it wasn't like in bad romantic movies.
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First restaurant in Paris I went to with Mrs Ootlg, the waiter was a complete arsehole to me and all over her. Then we went back to the hotel and had our door burst open at three in the morning by gendarmes armed with machine guns - who did nevertheless apologise very nicely when they realised they'd got the wrong room. Love the place.
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Post by mids on Mar 1, 2020 12:48:50 GMT
I suspect there's a very large scandal looming there.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 1, 2020 15:00:38 GMT
It would be interesting to see what % of people regret their transition and how much challenge they receive on their decisions to transition. Some of the stories you hear from people with gender dysphoria just seem to be cases of men / women who aren’t remotely masculine / feminine respectively. You would think a progressive society would have room for women to be masculine and men feminine if they prefer.
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 1, 2020 15:05:29 GMT
Yeah, I see that they might just have a mental illness and should be offered treatment but part of me thinks that the physical alterations are indulgent and unhealthy.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 1, 2020 15:22:09 GMT
I have read you cannot treat gender dysphoria (as in it’s not a mental health concern that can be “cured”.)
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 1, 2020 15:25:06 GMT
Yeah, dunno about that. Sounds like PC opinion rather than medical fact. I'll have a read up.
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Post by voice on Mar 1, 2020 16:59:42 GMT
I would assume all assessments for Gillick competence would have been done. I cant imagine she walked into a clinic and said she wanted to transition and everyone said sure. And its not a quick process, takes quite a while .
Buyers remorse? Wouldn't be the first.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 1, 2020 21:25:21 GMT
People regret transitioning, people regret not transitioning much earlier; people regret abortions, people regret not getting abortions; people regret plastic surgery, people regret not getting plastic surgery earlier. People regret taking statins, people regret not taking statins. Etc, etc.
Not sure that someone regretting their choice is a reason to sue. If your regret rates are low, you're doing OK.
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 1, 2020 21:30:28 GMT
Such is the state of moralistic turbulance at the BBC that I could not reliably gleen from that article the birth gender of the complainant.
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