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If everyone here is so multilingual and cultured, then why does no one understand when I say ‘alright, alright, alright’?

Luxembourg is a great place, and in general, people here are quite knowledgeable about other languages, cultures, and seminal early 90s American films about teenagers who spend their free time cruising around looking for weed and beer.   However, I’ve begun to see that people here are not nearly as open-minded or educated as they pretend […]

French-speaking bakery employee who hears 134 variations of ‘croissant’ every day still pretends not to understand you

An employee of a popular Luxembourg City bakery chain has insisted that she cannot understand your pronunciation of the word “croissant” despite the fact she hears 134 variations of the word every day. The charade took place on Thursday after you stopped in for a coffee and a pastry around 9:15 a.m. “Un croissant, s’il […]

This couple bought a flat near the city and now they wear fine clothes and call each other ‘lord’ and ‘lady’

A couple who managed to buy an apartment near Luxembourg City despite only being in their 30s have decided to now act the part, wearing fine clothes and referring to each other as if they were Medicis in the Renaissance. Sid Gorlek and Fausta Nannini, now usually known as “my lord” and “my lady,” still […]

Weird: woman does not have selfie with Bettel 

A Kopstal woman who at a dinner party claimed that, like everyone, she possessed a selfie with Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has finally admitted she was lying.  The web of deception was created when Rosalind Karnacky, 28, took part in a dinner with seven other people, only two of whom she knew prior to the […]

Almost fooled us: this expat greeted the waiter in Luxembourgish, ordered in French, but had to switch to English when a question was asked 

What started off as a very convincing show of facile multilingualism quickly fell apart when a Luxembourg City waiter posed a question to the customer.   Until that moment, Max Mirel has convinced himself and his two friends visiting from out of town that he was a regular Luxembourg polyglot, effortlessly dancing between languages after having […]