Posted on 03/24/2006 7:38:06 PM PST by ex-Texan
"Je? Parlez Anglais? Jamais! Je coasserais plutôt!," Dites les grenouilles."
["Me? Speak English? Never! I would rather croak! Say the frogs."] The entire nation is dealing with street riots, arson and vandalism. You would think that Chirac would be more in control of his his public persona. The Frogs are acting very hostile and illogical. It must be in their blood.
Obviously, Chirac and the rest of the Frogs have forgotten their most commonly used French phrase:"Sprechen Sie Deutsche?"
LOL!
EUROPEAN UNION
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has been accepted a five year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing public enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the language is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "0" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud, of kors, be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German lik zey vunted in ze forst plas...
I'm no huge fan of England, but you have to admit the language is so well put together that one versed in it can proficiently express him/her self.
Yeah, right, sure.
Of course they are illogical. Celtic ferocity became French Elan.
I grew up reading Asterix and Obelix, in French, German, and Danish, as well as English.
So long, Marianne.
I studied French before the personal computer, so don't have much familiarity with how to insert the accents and other marks...
"So long, Marianne"
OK, that may be the sharpest, funniest comment I've ever read here. LC's funereal tone a double match. Dang, I can't get it out of my head!
You mean somebody remembers Marianne, from Le Point magazine, pretty in her minidress and Phrygian cap of freedom, a most winsome symbol of La Belle France?
But of course, that was such an earlier time!
Chirac made a big mistake. He let people know something was getting to him. Never show your hand. Never. Never. Never.
It is starting to sound like "newspeak" from "1984"
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