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Does Julien really speak 'broken English'?


I really love this movie for its humor and heart and I hate to raise a finicky objection, but is the movie title "Broken English" really apt?

Julien certainly speaks English with a foreign accent but is neverthleless quite fluent in English.

To say that someone speaks "broken English" generally implies definite lack of fluency--i.e., that they can hardly form proper sentences and have a very limited vocabulary.

Anyone have any thoughts about that?

Maybe the "Broken English" is the English spoken by the Parisian cabdriver who says "I hope you find ha-penis"?

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