The Dialect

I was ringing groceries, provisions, the other day and had a fantastic little exchange en français.  To resume my French studies, left to decompose after high school, I started with learning how to say the various robot phrases that we, as caissiers and caissières, have to repeat to customers un mille times throughout the day.  I would try one phrase out on a French-speaking customer and then ask them how to say another phrase.  In this manner, my répertoire would grow with each transaction.

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