25 January 2014
Au quartier belge
The other day, at La Promenade Café, I noticed that the
sign 'La Toilette' had appeared on the restroom door. I emailed the
owner, to say that perhaps it should read 'Les Toilettes,' as it would in
France. He replied that, in Belgium, a restroom is singular, not
plural. This can mean only that the street scene portrayed on the café
walls is not French, but Belgian! I remember that a
French professor, in my university days, told me that I had a Belgian
accent. To this day, I don't know what a Belgian accent sounds like.
Like me, evidently.
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