Why French teachers have the blues

Expatica ^ | Feb 2005 | François Buglet

[ijcr]

Now, if only the American educashun system reads the memo.

Spanish declined by just 44 percent.

These kids must be planning to vacation in Orlando and need to comprehend the local argot.

[goldstategop]

Whither France? No one wants to learn French because no one can recall one recent contribution France has made to the world's advancement.

(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")

[kingattax]

SACRE BLEU !!!

[Army Air Corps]

On the other hand, French is very useful when you wish to surrender, stab peope in the back, or behave like a complete b*stard.

[Fudd Fan]

c'est bon, non?

[Bouchart]

Quoted from goldstategop: "Whither France? No one wants to learn French because no one can recall one recent contribution France has made to the world's advancement."

[GSlob]

"no one can recall one recent contribution France has made to the world's advancement."
Why, it's not even 500 years since they contributed mightily: in 1530 Girolamo Fracastoro wrote his "Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus" and ever since the French Disease is preserved in the annals.

[Fudd Fan]

french kissing? hmmm?

[patton]

I had a dream, once. My wife woke me up...

"Hey, jackass, you are talking in your sleep."

"What did I say?" (Shudder)

"I don't know, you were talking in french! What were you dreaming about?"

"J'ne c'est pas. I don't speak french."

[goldstategop]

LOL! Its more contagious than syphilis. I speak of sheer cowardice.

(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")

[SAJ]

Now, now. Be fair. The froggies did invent the bidet, no doubt to save the world from the ravages of toilet paper...

[Jeff Chandler]

the French Disease is preserved in the annals.

No, that's the Greek disease.

[PAR35]

no one can recall one recent contribution France has made to the world's advancement."

They stopped the Muslims at the battle of Tours. It took Islam over 1200 years to regain the lost ground.

[econ_grad]

Come on! The French did remarkable work in several fields of mathematics.

[xJones]

At least Quebec will hold on to the French language long after it's dead everywhere else. And Quebec will insist that the rest of Canada remains bilingual or else it might really, actually, they mean it, secede.

[this_ol_patriot]

Pardon my French.

[xJones]

Pardon my French.

You own some French? Why, and how can you afford them?:)

[RJL]

Come on! The French did remarkable work in several fields of mathematics.

Even today mathematicians can't figure out how such a large number of French surrendered in such a small amount of time to the Germans.

[DeFault User]

The froggies did invent the bidet, no doubt to save the world from the ravages of toilet paper...

If you used crepe paper for toilet paper, you would have invented the bidet too.

[xJones]

Even today mathematicians can't figure out how such a large number of French surrendered in such a small amount of time to the Germans.

LOL!