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From: Kevin Lambert on 1 Oct 2009 17:36 Simon Wilson wrote: > Beav wrote: >> "Kevin Lambert" <kjlambert(a)btnospam.com> wrote in message >> news:-5idnfaz64rU9FnXnZ2dnUVZ8mSdnZ2d(a)bt.com... >>> Leszek Karlik wrote: >>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:02:55 +0200, Chris H >>>> <fazer.1000thousand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>>>>> Yeah, but we did give them "Le Weekend" >>>>>> Let's not forget "Le Sandwich" >>>>> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_fran%C3%A7ais_d%27origine_anglaise >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin >>>> >>>> Compare and contrast. :-) >>>> >>> I was in a lecture on Soviet strategy (a long time ago) when the >>> lecturer said, with no sense of irony, 'the trouble with the Russians >>> is that they have no word for "detente".'. >> >> And oddly, didn't George Bush say the French didn't have a word for >> detente too? >> > > I thought it was entrepreneur. cba to google. > It was. -- Kevin
From: Phil Launchbury on 2 Oct 2009 05:57 In article <ha2mru$pj6$02$1(a)news.t-online.com>, Tosspot wrote: > Phil Launchbury wrote: >> In article <ha08u2$5b1$02$2(a)news.t-online.com>, Tosspot wrote: >> >> One time we were all in Austria the German guy (after much aggro with >> the Belgian guy) muttered something to the effect of "now I know why we >> tried to flatten you lot in 1940". >> >> My response was "yeah - we should never have given them Beguim back in >> 1945". Belgian guy was deeply unamused - especially when the old joke >> about the reasons why Belgian roads are so straight came up a bit >> later. > > I think it's time to forget the job in the Foreign Office... And I had such high hopes.. Phil -- Phil Launchbury 'I speak to machines with the voice of humanity' 'Speak to the wise with the voice of insanity'
From: Phil Launchbury on 2 Oct 2009 05:55 In article <op.u04ebzzpbkkx24(a)attitude-adjust>, Leszek Karlik wrote: > On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:44:41 +0200, Phil Launchbury ><phill(a)launchbury.org.uk> wrote: > > [...] >> The old joke about English springs top mind: >> >> "English - not so much borrowing words from other languages as chasing >> them up alleyways and mugging them for entire sections of their >> vocabulary.." > > It's a Nicoll quote. "The problem with defending the purity of the Cool - I got it second hand from the woman who did the couple of short series on words and how old they were.. (can't remember her name offhand). > Sometimes I think about resubscribing rec.arts.sf.writing. Then I > think again. ;-) Given the sort of people who probably hang out there I've stayed well away.. Phil -- Phil Launchbury 'I speak to machines with the voice of humanity' 'Speak to the wise with the voice of insanity'
From: CT on 2 Oct 2009 06:04 Phil Launchbury wrote: > And I had such high hopes.. Hmmm...are you trying to start a Pink Floyd cascade now? -- Chris
From: Catman on 2 Oct 2009 06:29
CT wrote: > Phil Launchbury wrote: > >> And I had such high hopes.. > > Hmmm...are you trying to start a Pink Floyd cascade now? > Are there any signs of life? -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk |