To defend MagicalTux here. He is french, and the miscommunications are incredible. I used to work with many French, and they all come off like.. well like MtGox. Its a combo of language and culture, that make the French seems incredibly obnoxious to Americans when communicating in English.
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It's a matter of Latin language structure (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian) versus Anglo-Saxon (not "Americans" specifically) and you could add Germanic language branch versus those 2... and why not Slav.
Confusions of an old Continent such as Europe.