Date: June 16th, 2026 7:29 AM Author: Stirring Saffron Space
& reading?
Post a podcast or show that you listen to in French or a book that you have read and we can assess from there. Though your speaking level will have to be self evaluated.
[John Linton] actually grew up [in Korea], unlike [nyuug]. And his family has been there since the 1800s. And he got elected to the National Assembly. He seems pretty Korean.
Date: June 16th, 2026 9:29 AM Author: deranged tattoo personal credit line
He has never once mentioned a French book or TV show or movie in his entire poasting career. He has never once mentioned a cornerstone of French culture or talked about the food or wine. He's never gone to see Chambord or Chenonceau. And it seems like even when he is in St. Tropez he is speaking English the entire time. He has never once talked about eating raclette or some other common French tradition. He's never quoted Le Petit Prince or any classic. It's actually eerie how little French culture he has ever mentioned.
Here are some French things he has talked about:
- He likes Marine Le Pen. Although that's as much as he has ever said about it.
- He supports the French national football team. Again fairly vague.
That is the extent imo of his French experience that he has ever poasted about. Also in the last ten years I have responded to him at least a dozen times with clips and videos in French and he has never once responded to one of them. Not even a "haha, so true."
Date: June 16th, 2026 10:47 AM Author: deranged tattoo personal credit line
Lmao 180
He also has never typed out even one word of French. He has never even used a French loanword. It's very sus. He's never even said apropos of nothing. He has never once shown that he can read or write a basic sentence. The evidence against him is towering. Also when pressed to prove it he said a single word in a voice note. He thought one word would end the debate. I'm pretty sure he knows less than a hundred French words but probably closer to 20. I think it's that low.
Date: June 16th, 2026 10:47 AM Author: indigo boiling water round eye
I have no view about RSF's language or cultural abilities and have never engaged on this issue b/c I don't massively care.
But I think it's worth pointing out that I think he is fully legit French b/c his father is fully legit French. His father's name is classic Eastern France Alsace-Lorraine: first name "Michel", as French as a frog surrendering while wearing a beret, plus a German-language surname of the type that most non-Arab people in that formerly-German part of France have, which together gives a name that in Alsace-French means "Michael Carpenter". It's so Alsace-French (Protestant, not Jewish) that I think it's exceedingly unlikely that anyone NOT from a Protestant Alsace-French background would have that name. If that's right, then he is completely, legitimately "pure laine" French.
I neither know nor particularly care how good his French is.
Date: June 16th, 2026 10:52 AM Author: deranged tattoo personal credit line
Yeah dude I have met a ton of people from Alsace who have a French name and a German surname. Incredibly common. I knew a woman let's call her for arguments sake Juliette Schaeffer. OK there's a million of these people. So what? No one has ever disputed that his dad is a real life French person.
What's embarrassing is that RSF is a French citizen who lives in France and doesn't speak the language. Just think how lame that is. Imagine being a German citizen who LIVES in Germany and doesn't speak German. That would be insane right?
Date: June 16th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: indigo boiling water round eye
"Imagine being a German citizen who LIVES in Germany and doesn't speak German." Thanks to Angela Merkel there are now millions of these.
I understand your point and it is not how I would handle it b/c I like languages and have some modest ability with them but I'm far more exercised about the tens of millions of muslims destroying Europe than I am about one guy who wants to talk and order in English when he's out at a bar
Date: June 16th, 2026 11:07 AM Author: Stirring Saffron Space
We can't press a long time poster about his language ability in a country where he claims citizenship and lives because separately theres too many muslims? wtf? get out of this thread.
Date: June 16th, 2026 11:11 AM Author: deranged tattoo personal credit line
I love butt cheeks but he's almost certainly Jewish given that he's poasted right wing political commentary here for over a decade and has never once opined on the JQ. When pressed he says the same thing that muzzies are the Real Problem. It's fully Candy Ride tier to excuse international Jewry and to support Isreal because you "don't like Muslims." Anyway I give butt cheeks a pass because he's so awesome in other ways but definitely owes somebody something in Tel Aviv. I still accept him though and wouldn't put him in a kiln. He's probably just Matt Walsh irl.
Date: June 16th, 2026 12:20 PM Author: deranged tattoo personal credit line
People clown on you all the time if you don't speak English in the US. Similarly ur considered a joke if you live in Mexico and don't speak Spanish. Mexicans in the US who only speak Spanish get mad as fuck at Americanized beaners who don't speak Spanish. What's ur point? Ur basically a clown if you don't speak the language where you live.
Date: June 16th, 2026 10:57 AM Author: Stirring Saffron Space
this whole thread is about how good his French is though. thats the point. that he is actually French ethnically (50% anyway, not sure about the other 50%) and holds French citizenship and spends a great deal of time there, one would think such a person speaks french.
Date: June 16th, 2026 11:09 AM Author: indigo boiling water round eye
like I said above it's not how I would handle it but I get more enjoyment out of learning languages (and I actually have a C2 DALF certificate somewhere in a box to prove it)
what I meant is I think his connection to France is real and legit, whatever his language ability
Date: June 16th, 2026 11:01 AM Author: Stirring Saffron Space
"Raised in the City, his father a fireman, B. came of age during the sixties and fused that decade's social fervor with his own Gotham–style resourcefulness and grit. He'd come home from Vietnam in 1969 and gone to law school at Seton Hall, on the GI bill."
Doesn't sound like he's from France at all. His dad was an NYC firefighter.
Date: June 16th, 2026 11:18 AM Author: deranged tattoo personal credit line
Maybe Michel's father was Vichy and they dipped out after the war. A lot of Alsacemos were aligned with Germany. His parents could have worked for the government in exile up to the end and then when they realized the jig was up they hied to NYC. Just one speculative possibility.
NYUUG pretends to be Korean. The truth is, he was born in America, is an American citizen, does not have Korean citizenship or a Korean passport and cannot speak Korean. He is living abroad like any other sad sexpat that was exiled from their homeland due to no romantic prospects. Since his ancestry is Korean, he could get Korean citizenship, but in order to do so, all Korean "males" under 35 must complete mandatory military service. Nyuug is a coward and won't do this, so he is still just another American sexpat loser and not a Korean as he constantly claims to be.