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C'est la vie.
Posted by: emkay | September 04, 2008 at 02:13 PM
very few people outside France will being able to speak French in the future.
Is our journalists learning?
Posted by: fivver | September 04, 2008 at 02:15 PM
et d'abord!
Posted by: emkay | September 04, 2008 at 02:15 PM
Hopefully, cause they certainly ain't writing worth beans.
Posted by: emkay | September 04, 2008 at 02:16 PM
Nous rendons, nous rendons.
Posted by: Layzeeboy | September 04, 2008 at 02:18 PM
Oui Oui.
Posted by: Margaritaville | September 04, 2008 at 02:18 PM
Or, however you spell it in English.
Posted by: Margaritaville | September 04, 2008 at 02:18 PM
Weee farrt in your gheeneral dirrrection.
Posted by: queensbee | September 04, 2008 at 02:20 PM
Is anyone else experiencing disappearing blog postings? I'll look at something and there will be 6 comments and then I'll go back and there will only be one. Is someone gas-lighting me?
*cue scary music, enter Angela Landsbury*
Posted by: emkay | September 04, 2008 at 02:20 PM
"French used to be the lingua franca for most EU business..."
Redondant, non?
Posted by: Howard from Broward | September 04, 2008 at 02:25 PM
Le booger!
Posted by: Siouxie | September 04, 2008 at 02:29 PM
emkay, the bot is messing with your head.
Posted by: Margaritaville | September 04, 2008 at 02:29 PM
no, no, i expeerienced it too. it is zee surrrenduring french.
Posted by: queensbee | September 04, 2008 at 02:31 PM
Cool, dude!
Posted by: N. Bonaparte | September 04, 2008 at 02:34 PM
Someone please tell CJ (in advance) not to diss L'Académie Française. Zey weel mess yew uuup, monsieur. Zey are cranky short men with ze attitude, no?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | September 04, 2008 at 02:34 PM
So, this is why my gifted son is taking 4 years of French. So he can surrender. Sigh...
Posted by: eilbeback | September 04, 2008 at 02:36 PM
I love the French language and culture, but they are pretty defensive about importing new words. A lot of slang terms in French also come from Arabic.
English speakers have no compunction about importing new words, which is one reason why the English language has the largest vocabulary of any language (c'est vrai!) . . .
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | September 04, 2008 at 02:36 PM
The linguists could have bonded together, prompting a wine-and-cheese splattering melee.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | September 04, 2008 at 02:41 PM
The French are blaming their surrender on the influence of Hollywood?
I would be curious to know which eloquent soliloquy moved the French to raise the white flag.
Posted by: Erb's point | September 04, 2008 at 02:42 PM
Would you like English fries with that?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | September 04, 2008 at 02:42 PM
No more french kissing?
C'est si triste.
Posted by: emkay | September 04, 2008 at 02:49 PM
NMUA, if you're from Chicago, you know how seriously we take our claims to turf. *SNORK* at brawling at Ravinia!
Just don't mess with our parking places
in the
winter...
Posted by: Cat R | September 04, 2008 at 02:53 PM
Tant pis.
(hey, that looks pretty rude in English, too)
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | September 04, 2008 at 03:06 PM
Pepé Le Pew just won't be the same.
Posted by: crossgirl | September 04, 2008 at 03:13 PM
Why not, crossgirl? Didn't he speak in English?
*pokes L'Académie Française une fois plus*
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | September 04, 2008 at 03:25 PM
What's the French word for restaurant.
Posted by: pogo | September 04, 2008 at 03:31 PM
Chunks a ? up there.
Posted by: pogo | September 04, 2008 at 03:32 PM
J'ondulerai le drapeau blanc.
Posted by: MartiniShark | September 04, 2008 at 03:37 PM
Que?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | September 04, 2008 at 03:43 PM
I studied French in HS and college, and have never used it. I learned Spanish by necessity and use it all the time. Welcome to the club, France.
Posted by: baligurl | September 04, 2008 at 03:50 PM
*deletes Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)?*
Posted by: Dr. Bob | September 04, 2008 at 03:52 PM
Le woof (hikes leg)-
Posted by: WHITEschnauzer | September 04, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Nobody ever says, "Pardon my English".
Posted by: BoscoH | September 04, 2008 at 05:37 PM
But France's education minister yesterday admitted for the first time that the secret to success is speaking better English... He also admitted that, because of globalisation, very few people outside France will being able to speak French in the future.
'Nuff said!
Posted by: frodolives | September 04, 2008 at 08:45 PM
Les Québécois sont plus français que les Français ! Eux, ils n'abandonneront jamais la langue française... pas cette fin de semaine...ni dans le courriel (pourquoi les Parisiens disent-ils le week-end et l'émail ?).
Allez le Canadien ! Allez les Alouettes (qui jouent au football...pas au soccer comme les footballeurs de France) !
The Quebeckers are more french than the french. They will never abandon the french language... not this fin de semaine...nor in their courriel (Why do the Parisians say weekend and enamel? Go Canadien(s) ! Go Allouettes (who play football...not soccer like the French football players)
Posted by: plus loin une fois | September 04, 2008 at 09:21 PM
Mon dieu! C'est tragique, non?
Posted by: Laurie | September 04, 2008 at 10:10 PM
I heard that Chuck Norris looked at a map of Europe, and France surrendered.
Posted by: Kahn | September 04, 2008 at 10:26 PM
No, that was Sarah Palin.
Posted by: BoscoH | September 05, 2008 at 12:40 AM
What, she went mousse hunting?
Posted by: emkay | September 05, 2008 at 02:13 AM
Don't blame Sarcozy. He was indoctrinated by all those
Geree Louis'(14th?) movies we foisted on gauche De Gaulists before him.
Parle Vous le Jacqueass ChIrac ?
Posted by: Ednausean | September 05, 2008 at 06:47 AM