minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some backhanded compliments that are very subtle?linkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 days agoThis 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. linkfedilink
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.