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Love those linguistic mix-ups. mortifying at the time but also hilarious - and fun to draw!

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Mar 28Liked by ashlyn

Avian is a bird. Lol

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Thank you for the mention! :) Also, lait d'avion haha I love it, very relatable for this anglaise living in France!

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I'm actually from Quebec but moving to the U.S caused to forget the French language so I've been trying to relearn it myself. So far it's been an interesting ride! A lot of the time I end up speaking franglais because there are still some words I don't know. I loved reading about the the airplane milk incident it made me laugh!! 😂

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Mar 25Liked by ashlyn

Du lait d'avioooonnn!!! 😭💕

You just reminded me of the funny English(ish) words me and my sister would say when we were little and didn't totally understand the language yet: "chicken bag" instead of sleeping bag, "bay-ling suit" for bathing suit... they TOTALLY made sense to us at the time!

Did you guys do dictées at school? I had the realization recently that I don't think we ever had a single spelling bee, but we did dictées all the time - I figured it's a French thing? Anyway, I feel like it's something I feel that ALL schools should consider when I read about how much students seem to be struggling with literacy and spelling these days...

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Ahh! I wish I'd known you were in town, I would have loved to join you for coffee! Glad you had a good time and let me know when you come back!

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That was udderly moooving! Made me laugh out loud. Fantastique!

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I can’t not see udders on airplanes now, thankyouverymuch😂

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I hear that if you give a Chao airplane milk, they win every race.

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Mar 24Liked by ashlyn

Hahaha, I love airplane milk! ✈️🥛

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