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Tokyo Governor Sued for Insulting French
Associated Press ^
| 7/13/05
Posted on 07/13/2005 12:40:59 PM PDT by saquin
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To: Millee
That could be their national industry.
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:06:31 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Re: immigration "Those Syrians are coming to Iraq to do the bombings that Iraqis won't do.")
To: weegee
Sounds like they lost interest after 69 (about the only French number much of the world knows).Someone in St. John's should make a t-shirt with an 'I'm a soixante-newfy' theme. ;^)
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:07:25 PM PDT
by
headsonpikes
("The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.")
To: saquin
The benefits are endless if we can foment a really nasty fight between the French and the Japanese.
Pass it on
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:07:48 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
To: saquin
Headline:
Tokyo Governor Sued for Insulting French!
What did he do????
Tell the Truth???
44
posted on
07/13/2005 1:08:18 PM PDT
by
albee
(The best thing you can do for the poor is...not be one of them!)
To: saquin
Tokyo Governor Sued for Insulting French
Unfortunatley, it will take years, if not decades for this suit to be brought to trial.
Gov. Shintaro Ishihara has been given number 4,643,722,101 by the court, so he must wait his turn in line to be sued for insulting the French.
45
posted on
07/13/2005 1:08:45 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Suicide bomber ??? "I came to the wrong jihad")
To: saquin
46
posted on
07/13/2005 1:09:15 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: saquin
All of my correspondence with my Japanese customers is in English and I know for a fact that when they communicate with a French supplier it is also entirely in English. I do have to occasionally translate incoming messages from French or Quebecois customers whose English isn't up to snuff, but that's rare. French hasn't been the "Lingua Franca" for generations and therefore is indeed a "failure", idiot law suit or not.
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:09:28 PM PDT
by
katana
To: saquin
Ishihara was, IIRC, the guy who wrote The Japan Who Can Say No back in the day. Not exactly my idea of Mr. Nice Guy. OTOH, it is the French...
To: saquin
How rude of him, since French is obviously a wildly successful international language these days.
(Just kidding. Everybody knows English is the world's lingua franca nowadays.)
Imagine, somehow English is now the new French. Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:15:35 PM PDT
by
Maceman
(The Qur'an is Qu'rap)
To: Maceman
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:16:20 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
To: saquin
Talk about a missleading headline....
I was going to quip that you could understand it in two ways:
1. The Ministers french was insulting! As if he spoke french abominably.
2. The Minister was insulting the French People.
So it turns out that the Minister was insulting the French language! LOL
You don't even need to make this stuff up!
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:18:37 PM PDT
by
BoneHead
To: weegee
They'd be the #1 world power within a month. :-)
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:19:29 PM PDT
by
Millee
(So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
To: William Creel
We need an Amercian version of this guy.
You sure about that? The dude is cool with the rape of Nanking.
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:20:07 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(The bubble of housing bubble threads is about to pop!)
To: saquin
It's ridicuous that you can be sued for insulting someone!!!
To: saquin
In French, some numbers can be unwieldy to say, such as 90, which translates as "four-twenty-ten." Actually it gets worse. 91 is quatre-vingt-onze (four ten eleven), but there are two different ways to say ninety-first: nonante et unième or quatre-vingt-onzième.
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:33:44 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: weegee
GG Liddy has gone to saying 1,000 million instead of a billion so people get a better idea of just how big a number it is. The word "billion" is ambiguous. Americans think a billion is a thousand million. Brits think a billion is a million million.
SD
To: saquin
French is the official language in about three dozen countries and territories worldwide Honest, when I read this I thought it said:
French is the official language in about three dozen countries and terrorists worldwide.
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:56:38 PM PDT
by
feedback doctor
(If you won't love the least of people, then you can't love any people)
To: saquin
Is it possible to insult the Frogs, I mean Frenchies?
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:58:02 PM PDT
by
zerosix
To: SoothingDave
Leftists everywhere think billions of dollars in aid still isn't enough.
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:58:03 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Re: immigration "Those Syrians are coming to Iraq to do the bombings that Iraqis won't do.")
To: Phantom Lord
And in Quebec, I believe it is illegal to do business in english in any way, shape, or form. Not quite. The restrictions surround signage, specifically on a bi-lingual (English/French) sign the French lettering must be no less than twice the size of the English (idiotic, but there you go).
What language you actually conduct your business in is your business. A non-French speaker would have no problem doing business in Quebec, with the possible exception of some of the rural and remote areas.
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posted on
07/13/2005 1:58:54 PM PDT
by
mitchbert
(Facts Are Stubborn Things .)
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