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FRENCH

Posted on 05/21/2019 12:21:27 PM PDT by mowowie

So here i am putting together a Char-Broil portable gas grill that came with three seperate instruction manuals..


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To: mowowie

Brought to us by NAFTA...Just easier and cheaper I’d guess to print one manual in 3 languages than 3 manuals in one language...Bean counters told me so...


41 posted on 05/21/2019 1:04:00 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: mowowie

Besides CANADA does french matter to anybody these days?
Probably not even that much in France anymore...

Are the schools here still forcing their students to learn it to graduate?
hope not...


42 posted on 05/21/2019 1:05:14 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

Your unit price is lower because base costs are amortized over a larger customer base. Having that manual in French probably lowered unit production costs by a couple of per cent.


43 posted on 05/21/2019 1:05:48 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I studied French all the way through high-school.

Ditto...a long,long time ago. But on my recent visit to Quebec all I could remember is "Je cherche le salle de bains".

44 posted on 05/21/2019 1:05:54 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Ditto...a long,long time ago. But on my recent visit to Quebec all I could remember is "Je cherche le salle de bains".

Then you go through all of that trouble of learning French, and then you discover that the French love to reverse their words (Verlan) so "merci" becomes "cimer".

45 posted on 05/21/2019 1:07:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012; Jeff Chandler

Thanks for making my point.

Most of us would be happy with one Weber rather than buying 3 Char Broils over the years.

Again - /snark


46 posted on 05/21/2019 1:09:28 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Good point


47 posted on 05/21/2019 1:09:45 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

If this is the biggest problem you face this week, then please get down on your knees tonight and thank God for your good fortune.


48 posted on 05/21/2019 1:10:04 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Was thinking the same..


49 posted on 05/21/2019 1:11:33 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie
In the immortal words of Pink Floyd:

"Dans l'ensemble, vous êtes juste une autre brique dans le mur."

:-P

50 posted on 05/21/2019 1:11:57 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: dfwgator
It’s like those French have a different word for everything.

I think I heard a Wild and Crazy Guy say that once.

51 posted on 05/21/2019 1:12:02 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ('DEPLORABLE' Charter Member of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - and DAMN Proud of it!.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I just fixed my garage door opener after being broken all winter.

i’m kinda jacked up...
lol


52 posted on 05/21/2019 1:12:53 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie
Here you are fixing your garage door opener ... and there are so many people in this world who don't even have doors on their garage ... or even a garage ... or anything to put inside a garage at all.

I have no idea why I'm being so philosophical today. LOL.

53 posted on 05/21/2019 1:15:27 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: mowowie

For what it’s worth, France was the cradle of Western Christian civilization.


54 posted on 05/21/2019 1:16:19 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: Alberta's Child

Oh man....


55 posted on 05/21/2019 1:18:05 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: cornelis

thanks..


56 posted on 05/21/2019 1:22:14 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Alberta's Child

:)


57 posted on 05/21/2019 1:23:49 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Leaning Right
But French? Why?

Because the cute chicks would take it, and you got to hear them speaking French.

58 posted on 05/21/2019 1:24:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Ditto...a long,long time ago. But on my recent visit to Quebec all I could remember is "Je cherche le salle de bains".

Excusez-moi, mais c'est 'Je cherche la salle de bains.'

59 posted on 05/21/2019 1:27:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Ditto...a long,long time ago. But on my recent visit to Quebec all I could remember is "Je cherche le salle de bains".

Excusez-moi, mais c'est 'Je cherche la salle de bains.'

60 posted on 05/21/2019 1:28:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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