English Lingo?

Andy

i did french for 5 years but never bothered to pay attention in lessons and thats because i cant stand the french! and i needed another subject to study at college and spanish look pretty cool so i took it, i also got to go to barcelona which was pretty cool.

maximus

you hate the french? that's a strong statement! have you heard that in america some want to switch the name of French Fries (i think you call them chips) into Freedom Fries, becuase the french didn't support us in the war?

Andy

Refering to the above statement i fail to see where the Italics can be found, (i have never used italics in this before so it better work!)

Mentat

Well then I wont tell you about the tiny statement at the bottom that refers to my having edited my post...DOH!

cmdr_sponge

if it wasn't so blatantly racist i would start a thread on them french weasels, desecrating our war graves , bastards. most english people do hate the frensh why do you think we are so against being in europe, its run for the the french and germans by the french and germans.

we (america and britain) faught to be independant TWICE and now our (british) government wants to give it back to the ppl we faught. dam europeans. we should launch a pre-emptive strike against them. hasn't france got some WMDs.

Mentat

Maybe he meant he didn't like the French language? After all, that's the subject of the discussion (isn't it?).

Also, the term "French fry" refers to the fact that the potato is "frenched" (a cooking term for slicing into thin "finger-slices") before being "fried".

Andy

Well i say that i hate the French when really i should say that whenever i have spoken to a french person or seen a french person on the news they have always seemed arrogant about something, i could understand it apart from the fact that in all of the wars the English and the French have had we have kicked their arses more often than they managed to luckily scrape a narrow victory!

maximus

it appears to me as though they really hate the french people too!




i know, that's exacly why it's so funny that they want to change it. in sacramento there's this odd sign in front of a window to a liquir store that reads: NO FRENCH WINE! -phase one!

cmdr_sponge

ne way back to the real subject wanting to change french fries to freedom fries is another example of our foolish language and how it is understood. people need to understand the language they speak. if french fries were really french wouldn't the frecnh call them french fries not frites.

was it really true that some one wanted to change hello to heaveno in america because they were worried about satanism.

mind u we culd be lookin to deaply into this. doesn't matter how u say it, its what u mean by it.

KEEP ENGLISH ENGLISH

Tom Mattson

Oi! You seem to have forgotten that Australians speak English, too. Why wasn't that put on the poll? With all the Aussies roaming around here, you're going to be in deep dickery-doo if one of them notices this! [6)]

Andy

Ah good point, it does say Mentors only next to the edit poll option and seeing as your a mentor why dont you add australian to the poll, or is there a way of doing it that i dont know about?

Andy

Why do the Australians make Castlemaine XXXX? what are the 4X's for cant you spell beer?

maximus

i don't recall this. but that means little

Andy

ah i didnt notice this, i was looking in the actual subject text for the italics not at the bottom of the reply, my humblest apolagies mentat.