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From: Charlie on 1 Oct 2009 06:23 "Chris H" <fazer.1000thousand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:7ihob1F31m5ocU1(a)mid.individual.net... > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_fran%C3%A7ais_d%27origine_anglaise Did anyone else have to do some research to discover what a 'paltok' is, or am I the only hopelessly ignorant one around here?
From: Phil Launchbury on 1 Oct 2009 06:37 In article <ha08u2$5b1$02$2(a)news.t-online.com>, Tosspot wrote: > Hog wrote: >> Veggie Dave wrote: >>> >>> Let's be honest, though, the vast majority of it is simply posturing >>> rather than a genuine hatred. >> >> If it hadn't been for WW1 we would have let the Krauts turn the place >> over and germanize them. > > Yeah, but that would have been a cruel and unusual punishment for the > krauts. When I was at Windriver we had a couple of other EU admins - one in Germany (really good bloke) and one in Belgium (who we all cordially hated). 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. 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 1 Oct 2009 06:44 In article <op.u024gslqbkkx24(a)attitude-adjust>, 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 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.." 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 1 Oct 2009 06:47 In article <op.u02r3vdbbkkx24(a)attitude-adjust>, Leszek Karlik wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:06:26 +0200, Phil Launchbury ><phill(a)launchbury.org.uk> wrote: > > [...] >>> <Bob The Angry Flower waves at you> >> >> A flower? > > http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif > >> You'll be going to Willow Farm next. > > Isn't it terribly windy there? No - but everyone lies there. Even the fox on the rocks. Watch out they don't change you into a human being. 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 1 Oct 2009 06:48
In article <1j6v735.pjx549liftxN%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>, The Older Gentleman wrote: > Cab <rosbif(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> But why is it that there is always an air of "The English hate the >> French" (and vv, I suppose)? What is(are) the reason(s)? > > A millenium of war forms habits that are hard to break. Plus they're too > like us. *Ding* A good way to wind up racists on both sides of the Channel is to enumerate the many similarities in culture.. Phil -- Phil Launchbury 'I speak to machines with the voice of humanity' 'Speak to the wise with the voice of insanity' |