How's it going, Mal? Why Australians can get away with familiarity but French schoolboys can't
- Written by Sophia Waters, Lecturer in Writing, University of New England
On Monday this week French President Emmanuel Macron was greeting some high school students at a ceremony in western Paris to commemorate General Charles De Gaulle’s call for resistance in the second world war. It became an unlikely lesson in French manners.
Greeting a group of boys, Macron said to them, “Ça va?”, a phrase...