I may need to say something that is (seemingly) nice about someone, but I’d prefer it be very subtly backhanded or nearly believable hyperbole.



Edit: I realized that I was imagining something like how the Colbert Report was done where it’s easy to believe I’m agreeing when really I’m spoofing.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    This works only in Dutch. I used to work in the service industry, where every now and then you’d have rude or ungrateful people.

    In Dutch, the formal way of saying ‘thank you’ is ‘Dank u’, but that’s very close in pronunciation to French ‘dans cul’, meaning ‘in the ass’.

    So with people I secretly loathed I would thank them with an ever so slight French twang.

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      7 hours ago

      In the Southern United States men will do this with Northern men passing through. Mumbling yes ma’am instead of yes man.

      Real cuntish if you ask me, I think they need a taste of their own medicine.