my theater class place (a big place, capitol if you ever heard of it) is divided in french and English everyone (no, really) in my group (french) can speak perfect English or near perfect, and only about 10% of the English group can speak french, so when an english talk is going on and we start speaking french about something, they treat it as this

Cette Troper, ayant appris le français à son école primaire, parfois cela. Par exemple, en ce moment! xD Auto Démontrer Entrée, tout le monde? (Dieu, je souhaite qu'il y ait une trope pour cela ... Au contraire, nous vous Auto Démontrer L'article, ce qui est assez proche de la même chose, sauf, bien, tu sais. Et oui, au cas où quelqu'une se demande, je suis l'aide de Google Translate pour ce. Je ne sais pas assez de français pour être capable de faire autrement! XDDD)

Translation: This troper, having learned French at her primary school, will sometimes do this. For example, right now! xD Self Demonstrating Entry, anyone? (God, I wish there was a trope for that... instead we get {{Self Demonstrating Article}}, which is pretty close to the same thing except, well, you know. And yes, in case anyone's wondering, I am using Google Translate for this. I don't know enough French to be able to do otherwise! XDDD)

If you need to use Google Translate to type a fairly simple passage, maybe you should put your pretensions aside and not do it at all. Randomly spouting off in French makes you look pretentious if you speak it well. It just made you look a pretentious idiot if you don't.

This troper in several of his articles here - including using ''par exemple''

Ce Tropeur likes to use "bon fait, monsoier" in an ironic sense in conversation.

Surely, you mean "bien fait, monsieur"?

Indeed I do. Goddamn adverbs.

This troper likes to use a mixture of French and Spanish (mostly using French, but filling in with Spanish when her vocabulary fails her). She also likes to yell nonsense phrases in french at her brother to see if he understands. (He doesn't)

Whenever I play Yu-Gi-Oh, I announce the start of my turn with "Ces't moi"(It's me) and the end of my turn with "Ces't tu"(It's you)

Peut-être ferais-tu mieux d'orthographier ton annonce "C'est à moi": being grammatically correct is always cooler.

Unless it's in French.

And it would be "C'est à toi" instead of "C'est tu".

Spending time with a native Frenchman and watching French films has taught me(who has taken 3 years of the language) that proper grammar is generally ignored for sake of convenience. As a matter of fact, that same native Frenchman was in my French class and confirmed that the majority of the grammar that we were learning in French III was actually rarely used outside of occasional use in novels, much like in English. It's just easier.

This (native Frenchman) Troper would like to point out that this does not mean you can just throw a bunch of random words together and expect them to make sense. This purported "absence of grammar" is more of a parallel system that has its own very strict rules for what makes sense and what doesn't.

This troper has Japanese class right after her French class (yes, she is taking two languages; no, she is not insane). Half of the time, she'll turn around and have an entire conversation with the person behind her before realizing she's been speaking French for the past fifteen minutes.

Thanks to spending 11 years of his life watching Fort Boyard, this troper has been known to randomly say "C'est pas vrai!", "Nonononon, c'est trop tard!" and "Sort! Sort! Sort!" under his breath at random moments.

This Troper took French and does the same with "C'est pas vrai!" due to a series she watched in the third year. Cafe Des Reves shall someday be bought by this troper just to hear Dede say that until his friend told him to stop.

This Troper's mother used to be a French teacher and still uses French randomly. The Troper's answering machine is in English, so said mother will always leave messages in French to counter it (she doesn't speak English all that well).

{{Caphi}} translated the GratuitousEnglish-using womanizer douchebag Ameth into a GratuitousFrench-using womanizer douchebag in a partial translation script of ''{{Tales of Hearts}}''. He had to ask for help from a French-learning friend.

Every sentence this troper said for two weeks while he was in France.

Additionally, one girl the above troper knows uses the Very GratuitousFrench phrase, "Oh la Vache!". Interestingly and perplexingly at his homestay this troper heard one of the kids (a native french speaker) uttered the above phrase. This troper promptly laughed his ass off.

For those not in the know, it roughly translates to "Holy cow!"

Though the translation isn't perfect: "Holy cow!" usually expresses surprise, but "la vache!" is an exclamation of annoyance or disgust.

I beg to differ. I'm French (native speaker and all) This expression "Oh ! La Vache" has both meanings. The real meaning depends on the tone.

This troper occasionally slips into French, usually when depressed or talking about girls. Luckily for me, I have a few friends who speak French, and we occasionally continue the conversation in French until we get tired.

This lurker's mother has put her daughters into the habit of saying "Excuse me" in French around the house (however, since this lurker takes Spanish, she has no idea how to spell said French phrase). This has led to the daughters occasionally saying 'excuse me' in French, followed by 'please' in Spanish.

It would be "excusez-moi".

Excusez-moi por favor, that's half badass.

Hey, I'm not the only one! I once barely stopped myself from addressing someone as "Merci beaucoup, señora." ''Barely.''

This troper scatters it throughout his speech. The most common is "moi" instead of "me"; he is only waiting to be called on it and to then mark it down as OldShame.

7}} This Troper is fond of utilizing "Tres bien, monsieur" as sarcastic praise. Otherwise, despite taking classes for 8 years now, he despises the language.

This French troper adds random French words in her English speech. I especially love to yell Matrix}} nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de merde de salopards de connards d'enculés de ta mère when I want to swear in an english-speaking country.

Similarly, this Quebec troper, having missed a train by seconds, reflexively let fly with a resounding ''Hostie de saint-sacrement de criss de câlice de tabarnac!'' The Barcelonese were bewildered. Learn to swear in Québécois. It'll open whole new vistas to you.

This brasilian-ecuadorian troper spend her firts years of school in France. To recall the alphabet, a simple math rule or the monts I have to speak french.

This Troper's mother, sister, and several friends will speak in French for no other reason than to get a laugh at my expression of "What?"

Annoyingly, a classmate of this troper's decided that, to show a character was French, he had to spout off random French phrases, while the rest of his lines were in English. This, Decay}} along with other things, made for quite the English period.

This troper went to high school with a rather holier-than-thou attitude who did this all. the. damn. time. So what, you're taking French 1 and you suddenly think interjecting French adjectives every other word and giving everything else a poorly-rendered French inflection makes you fluent? Or cool, for that matter? Funnily enough, we duct-taped him to the school flagpole for entirely different reasons.

This Troper likes to swear under his breath in French, sometimes out loud, as well as the occasional cry of "The Abridged Series}} Ta mere joue les jeux des cartes en enfer!". French is one of his friend's {{Berserk Button}}s, so he speaks in it whenever he wants to annoy her.

For the record, it's "Ta mère joue aux cartes en enfer!" or "Ta mère joue à {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} en enfer!"

This Troper has a little project with a group of friends that includes a (British) character of her own design who affects a permanent, appalling French accent. When brainstorming ideas for his character she uses random phrases that probably make no grammatical sense, but because of this she uses 'je ne comprends pas!' even in regular situations.

This troper uses far too much French. It isn't for any particular reason, she's just too scatter-brained to remember to keep speaking the same language.

This troper has a tendency to lapse into gratuitous anything she can lay her hands on. Unfortunately, as of late, this is French.

This Troper counts almost exclusively in French. It's less of a desire and more of an annoying force of habit. He also has a nasty habit of shouting "NON POISSON!" (No fish) when trying to get a point across.

No... Fish...? Mind explaining that one?

This troper says the French word for a lot of things and can't remember the English ones. Thanks, bilingual pre-school and kindergarten! E.g. bibliotheque, boulangerie, l'ordinateur, several colours.

I read out all my birthday cards in French for no apparent reason.

This troper, though anglophone, has lived in Quebec more than half his life and occasionally does this ''without even knowing it.'' Sample dialogue (it was late and I was tired): -> This book is great. I'm really learning a packet of showses from it. -> Uh... -> ...What did I just say? -> "A packet of showses." -> A packet of -- oh my ''God.'' ''Un paquet de choses.'' A bunch of stuff. I've lived here for too long. Similarly, we all have stories in which we've forgotten that "concertation" or "subvention" aren't actually English words. Or ended up having an entire conversation with another anglophone in French.

This Troper only took ONE semester of high school French. Seven years later, she still occasionally thinks/speaks to herself in French.

Cette Troper a pris un cours d'espagnol avec un garçon français. Nous étions les seules personnes qui ont parlés français. Un jour, le professeur a commencé un film en français, mettant son droit aux lèvres. Nous avons rit quand la classe ne remarquait pas pour cinq minutes.

This troper has a habit of using "Párdon?" when he mishears something, as well as the (probably grammatically incorrect) use of "Párdon et moi?" (I haven't sat in a French class for three years, to be fair). Funnily enough, nobody particularly notices. Then again, he also has a habit of counting up to ten in Italian and using "Schiser!" when annoyed, despite never having sat in a German lesson (and using "Si!"). The funny part is he is British and very good at studying English Lit, so he should be beyond this.

When I get bored, I like to say the only five or six words I know in this idiom to annoy people. And I once met someone that did it, too, but it's different because she was french. I think so, I never quite spoke to her but she got frisky over a map of France and was in my english class for idiom impaired, so she must be...

This troper, though in French I, adores speaking random (admittedly basic) French to friends. It got hilarious when my friend and I had a conversation... I was speaking French and she was speaking Mandarin. Also, after a couple years playing Psycho Killer on RockBand 2 and making up random lyrics to the French parts ("I don't know French yet! I'm learning it next year!"), I was very happy to play it one day and pronounced everything right. ''Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?''

This troper was acting in class (English class, of all places), where she was a mother who was at the doctor's with her daughter. After the doctor explained that the daughter had the flu, this troper exclaimed, "Pauvre petit bébé!".

This troper is forced to learn French at her school. Yet, she somehow managed to say "Bonjour!" when she actually meant "Merci". In her third year of learning French. Also, she has the strange habit of exclaiming" Baguette!" in the most unfitting moments.

Ever since playing {{Recettear}}, this troper has gained the habit of using merde if he starts getting frustrated with something.

This French Troper often has to fake an english accent on Gratuitous French words to get her point accross when speaking to native English speakers.

This troper has a friend who constantly switches between French and English. As a result, I have to look up what he says to understand. He is unwittingly teaching me French, and I like to sometimes speak to him in what little French I know.

This tropette is an eighth French, quarter Scottish, and mostly English, took French for all 5 years of high school, and sometimes exclaims "Merde!" or "Scheiß!" when no French or German speakers are around. Her father also likes to converse in French sometimes, usually "Ça va?" "Ça va bien, merci."

This troper recently realized that, after taking two years of French, she has been accidentally thinking and even speaking in French when angered or irritated. French is not her first language, or even her second. It's her third, but she finds it very easy to speak French because Spanish, her second language, is very similar grammatically.

This Troper took French for 5 years in high school and college. Favorite phrase is now "C'est la vie, c'est la merde." Translated liberally: Life is shit.

This Troper does this all the time to improve her French. Practice makes perfect after all.

I do the same, having just recently been told I'll be taking the class come autumn; of course, I've yet to branch out from ''bonjour'', ''mon ami,'' and a few exasperated mutterings of ''mon Dieu'' when I'm annoyed or impressed.

This troper found that after five years of French her brain defaults to it the moment she is placed in an environment where no english is being spoken. As a result she became very guilty of this trope in her college German class. Example: The teacher would ask "Wie heisst du?" This troper would respond, "Ich heisse Blah blah blah. Tu t'appelle comment?" Retourner à la page GratuitousFrench.