[throwaway894345]

What did the server bring to your table? A fan?

[wat10000]

They understood what I meant, and then the French folks I was with had a long discussion with me about how it's not the same sound.

[throwaway894345]

Yeah, I've been there. Apparently my pronunciation of "Chretien" (Christian) was indecipherable, and the French people I was speaking with clarified it for me by saying, "you're saying cray-tee-uh(n), but it's pronounced cray-tee-uh(n)"

[dolmen]

And note that "crétin" means "dumb", so mispronouncing "chrétien" can seriously go wrong.

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cr%C3%A9tin