Drop French, say heads and teach Urdu instead

Before Dvorak is taught in school, he should be required to Anglicize his name like every proper person, eh?!

This guy's name has the same problem the FRY War had - too many consonants, improperly placed, and not enough vowels.

(NOTE: I was thinking of the very elaborate court dancing techniques, especially the one where the old gal grows 8 arms. Sure would like to know how to do that trick.)

Now, I'm just trying to figure out what one would do with a major in Urdu... translate for the UN?

Better yet, use it to explain to them that "one nuclear bomb can ruin your whole country"...or something like that. :)

Before Dvorak is taught in school, he should be required to Anglicize his name like every proper person, eh?!
This guy's name has the same problem the FRY War had - too many consonants, improperly placed, and not enough vowels.

Say, what've you got against the Czechs? Don't you know how pretty their women are?

(NOTE: I was thinking of the very elaborate court dancing techniques, especially the one where the old gal grows 8 arms. Sure would like to know how to do that trick.)

Umm, you're thinking of the goddess Kali, an avatar of Shiva the destroyer (not to be confused with "sitting shiva" which is a Jewish thing....). Her cult in 19th century India was named "thuggee," and called for her devotees to gain the confidence of travellers and then murder and plunder them. Those wretched colonialist bastards, the British, ruthlessly surpressed this authentic expression of an Third World people's religious doctrines. [Pause for obligatory booing and hissing to die down]. But those sect members live on in our English word "thug"---there ya go, an English borrowing from Hindustani! I knew if we thought long enough, we'd think of one!

s kind of hard to think of a good justification for learning French anymore.

All you have to learn are two phrases:

"I hate Americans"

"I surrender".

That will do for most occasions.

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