Bettman spoke two sentences of some of the worst French I have ever heard (although probably similar to my spoken French). I couldn't tell if he was booed because of the quality of his French, or for the halfhearted effort. But it leads me to ask you French guys like Gaby: if your French is so bad it sounds like an alien language, does it make sense to just say "fuck it, this ain't working", and dispense with the effort, or should one soldier out the words, no matter how terrible the quality of the French? My thinking is, why embarrass yourself trying to be polite? Is it even polite to speak someone's native language while sounding like an alien?