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From: Leszek Karlik on 30 Sep 2009 15:30 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. :-) -- Leszek 'Leslie' Karlik NTV 650
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 30 Sep 2009 15:57 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Beav" <beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> saying something like: >Coz it's fashionable. Like calling them Surrender Monkeys. Always got up my nose, that term. I mean, it's the right and proper thing for the Brits to slag the French off, but the Americans have no place in it at all. Colonial upstarts.
From: Andy Bonwick on 30 Sep 2009 17:05 On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:57:56 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: >We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >drugs began to take hold. I remember "Beav" ><beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> saying something like: > >>Coz it's fashionable. Like calling them Surrender Monkeys. > >Always got up my nose, that term. >I mean, it's the right and proper thing for the Brits to slag the French >off, but the Americans have no place in it at all. >Colonial upstarts. My biggest issue with the merkins is their inability to win a war when they're fighting on their own.
From: Kevin Lambert on 1 Oct 2009 04:33 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".'. -- Kevin
From: Lady Nina on 1 Oct 2009 05:53
On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:05:35 +0200, boots <boots(a)despammed.com> wrote: >On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:05:43 +0100 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Andy Bonwick >says: > >>My biggest issue with the merkins is their inability to win a war when >>they're fighting on their own. > >Hmm saw what you did there. I think everyone with half an ounce of sense thought 'bet there's a cross post'. I don't know what he expects to catch with bait that stinky. -- Lady Nina |