People will think you’re American if:
1. You don’t know where you’re going.
2. You ask where you can get a portable disponible
3. An old woman hands you a flyer on the street and you say merci and walk away. Then she runs after you asking for les pieces and scowls when you say you don’t have any.
4. When you ask vendors for an issue of a magazine that hasn’t come out yet.
5. When you smile at them.
Katie says
no smiling?! sad. is les pieces money?
amcelder says
Yeah, for smaller denominations they use coins (like 1 or 2 euros), “les pieces” are just the coins. I wasn’t lying though I really didn’t have any
Clarice Elder says
Hate to show my ignorance but what are Oxford commas?
amcelder says
Commas that some people use in front of a conjunction in a series, like, “tea, coffee, and water.”