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| 04/07/03
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Posted on 04/07/2003 11:50:14 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: bedolido
He is also calling for 'formidable' to replace 'cool' and 'bonvivant' to replace 'playboy'"
For those two, I would consider "tight" or "sweet" and "jerk."
To: bedolido
Man sagt also in Französich «Playboy»: «bon viveur», nicht «bon vivant».
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:05:12 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Ne messez pas avec le Texas)
To: Ditto
I wonder how you say "Bite Me" in Frog? Mangez-moi!
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:05:47 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Ne messez pas avec le Texas)
To: RWG
Merde, alors.
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:06:01 PM PDT
by
sarasota
To: bedolido
And the left ridiculed boycotts of French w(h)ine and names such as "French" fries. Let's see them laugh at this retalitory exercise too...
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:06:19 PM PDT
by
weegee
(McCarthy was right, fight the Red Menace.)
To: bedolido
He is a professor at the German department at Dumbkopf University.
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:06:19 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(So..... This is Virginia..... where are all the virgins?)
To: Willie Green
I've always found "Alouette" to be a bloodthirsty little tune...
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:06:47 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Ne messez pas avec le Texas)
To: bedolido
This is why scientists should stick to science, and actors should stick to acting. When they get involved in politics and linguistics, they become amateurs of the worst sort.
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:07:08 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(The Oracle on Mount Doom)
To: bedolido
What is French for "schadenfreude"? : "Ve are all Americans now"
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:07:10 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Muslim clerics, preaching jihad, are Weapons Of Mass Destruction!)
To: mad puppy
What is the new word for 'idiot'? Andouille
To: bedolido
Armin Burkhardt, who heads the working group on language in politics...... These are not scientists IMO, but political NewSpeak activists, trying to bring Orwell's 1984 to fruition.
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:08:14 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: bedolido
I am sure the word Retreat must be in there somewhere
To: r9etb
really!
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:08:58 PM PDT
by
cyn
To: bedolido
I'd like to recommend they replace "howdy" with "Achtung! Hande hoch!" It used to be the only German the French spoke.
To: cyn
The arbitors of cool have just ruled that the word "formindable" is NOT equivalent.
Dig it, daddy-o.
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:10:42 PM PDT
by
weegee
(McCarthy was right, fight the Red Menace.)
To: bedolido
Maybe they should revert to Vietnamese: "chu hoi" for instance loosely translated means "I surrender"
To: cyn
Good. Then they won't understand when we call them no good
<:!!#@!^ &!%%!$
**!!!@@s! Oops! Most of those words ARE German or French.
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:11:00 PM PDT
by
Williams
To: bedolido
He's not a "scientist", he's a commie university prof. BFD.
To: bedolido
"Royal with cheese" bump!
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:14:17 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
("They haif said. Quhat say they? Lat thame say.")
To: bedolido
To paraphrase Churchill, the germans are either at france's feet or at its throat. Wonder how it feels to be german, kissing the collective rears of the french???
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posted on
04/07/2003 12:14:38 PM PDT
by
ellery
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