Holy shit you guys.
I'm pretty sure Andrew was kidnapped last night and replaced by a clone/robot/cleverly disguised genius llama, cause some weird shit went on.
Sidenote: For those who didn't know/forgot, I'm French Canadian.
When talking to my dad on the phone, Andrew casually asked me
Qu'est-ce qu'il dit?, which is French for "What's he saying?" Let me explain why this is so astounding.
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Andrew's knowledge of French can be categorized into three different subjects:
- The basics, such as Bonjour, comment ça va, etc.
- Most of the animals of the forest. That way, he can identify them in both languages before blowing their heads off.
- Swear words. Lots of swear words. Pretty much all of the swear words.
This is the vocabulary of a French toddler, if that toddler happened to be raised by sailors with no parenting experience.
So the fact that Andrew was able to form an entire sentence completely on his own that, while being small in size, was filled with contractions and complicated structure is nothing short of a small miracle.
This is why I simply stared at him in awe, whispering "
what did you say?!" Probably feeling extremely superior, he smugly repeated the question with a flawless French accent and walked away. I finished my call with my father and stayed on the couch, wondering who the hell I've been living with for the past 3 years.
Then, later in the same day, I turned away from the computer to find this:
Never, in the entire 4+ years I've been with Andrew, have I ever seen him read a book, never mind a novel.
Sure, I've seen him read books about guns and reloading gun shells, enjoy cowboy comic books and glance at hunting magazines, but never an actual book with over 100 pages. And no pictures.
I was so shocked, I took a picture of it as proof that it actually happened because otherwise, no one would believe me.