Hello PBees 🐝

Hope Sunday is treating you well and you're fired up for a new week! I am not, but we are soon to enter May which comes with plenty of Bank holidays here in lovely France, making it one of our favorite month to go on W.E getaways, enjoy longer and warmer days and officially start the barbecue season 🥰

I personally love to find fellow Frenchies here so I'm always on the look out, and for me a telltale you might be French is... 🥁 Typography! It's not a surefire but we are one of the few countries that uses spaces before most punctuation signs, even other French speaking countries don't necessarily follow this rule. So if you write "For sure !", "Anybody knows ?", "Here are my picks :" etc, you probably are French 😉

Be on the lookout if you want to stay incognito as there is no space in front of any punctuation signs in English 🫣 I've been considering keeping this knowledge to myself so I can keep spotting some of you 😈 But sharing is caring, and I'm also very curious about other countries too!!

So my questions are:

• What are telltales you came across to spot your fellow country folks on this platform?
• Do you like to find fellow country folks?
• Do you prefer to stay incognito, would you rather we not point it out?
• Did someone mistakenly assume your nationality and if so why?

Which, in your opinion, is the biggest reading red flag? 👀🚩

1 - Saying audiobooks don't count 2 - Generalizing an entire group of readers based on a genre they like (eg dark romance readers) 3 - Bragging about never DNFing like it's a moral achievement 4 - Calling every popular book "overhyped" on principle 5 - Acting personally victimized when a flawed character has the nerve to be flawed 6 - Other, tell us yours