Oh, I just figured it out. Is because @LALegault is knowledgable about colonizer language of colonial FRANCE, and Germany's fash (knowledgable about colonizer language of colonial GERMANY) holds onto its resentments from hundreds of years ago about Battle of Normandy?
Or something like that? Do I trust Wikipedia to tell me about that? (indie looks it up and ... yeah, pretty much what I thought it was)