Re: So when it becomes self aware
> it may well develop the personality of a snooty Parisian waiter who responds to all your attempts, at speaking French, in English.
Things are definitely not what they used to be. A Frenchman *not* speaking French, and you call that snooty [sic]?
To be fair, badly-accented French can be very difficult for a native speaker to decipher. They're not necessarily being snotty there, just efficient.