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To: moonshinner_09
Cross-border language issues are not new.

People do eventually adjust.

I have yet to meet a frenchman that doesn't speak a little bit of german.

/johnny

5 posted on 02/24/2014 7:31:45 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

The French know English.

Every one of them.

They will not speak it. And they are nice to Americans who speak French. I know from experience.

And they despise Americans who won’t even try to say “Merci”.

We hate them for it, but, as you say, French is not that hard to learn, so I always speak French whenever I am in France and I speak German whenever I am in Germany, and I speak English when I am here. It’s not that hard to learn.

But there is no way I am learning another language to get along in my own country, I don’t care if I do live in wimpy give away our language borders and culture texas. It is not right.

it’s not that hard to

They have maintained their culture around that. Having given over to the Muslims, I can’t speak to except to say birth control culture has a price, as Pope Paul warned their Catholic butts a long time ago, as he did ours.


16 posted on 02/24/2014 7:52:58 PM PST by stanne
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To: JRandomFreeper

...I have yet to meet a frenchman that doesn’t speak a little bit of german....

I don’t care who you are that’s funny!


47 posted on 02/24/2014 11:32:39 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: JRandomFreeper

SNAP!
Good one JR!


57 posted on 02/25/2014 4:16:57 AM PST by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
I have yet to meet a frenchman that doesn't speak a little bit of german.

Dude....does apples and oranges mean anything?

78 posted on 02/25/2014 2:22:39 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
I have yet to meet a frenchman that doesn't speak a little bit of german.

Then you're certainly more worldly than I because I have yet to meet a real Frenchman........not that I really care to.

93 posted on 02/25/2014 4:51:40 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Occam's razor was made by Gillette)
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