Ours is better. Perspective, that is...as a language, French is without equal as to its sonorous qualities....read "sexy". English is without equal as to its marvellous store of alternative terms...we have borrowed the best from so many tongues, shamelessly, and have harvested an extraordinary crop of useful words. Love it.
AHHHHH YES! I'm a member. Huzzah. I've been around the block a few times in video site terms - live leak,youtube, megavideo, uncut, boreme, aBum bliptv - yep, I've done 'em all.
But of all the sites Glumbert comments are the best. Ramblerouser, pcracist, iluvballs, bigbadwolf, podman, canuck1963 and all the rest - I feel like I know and love you all (well, all except iluvballs who I want to stay well clear of frankly).
Glad to be aboard. Right then, aout that helen keller video,...
Bon! On s'arrache - on se casse. Salut mainenant.
Like here, the French aren't defined by their government. Wonderful people, and happy, for the most part. Never met a single "jerk"...and that covers five visits averaging three weeks each (most were four, but one was just a week). Paris, Burgundy, Provence, midi Pyrenees, Bordeaux, Loire
Valley, Normandy, Picardy, Champagne.....simply a wonderful country to visit...and live in, as best I can tell. Socialism prevails....but the folks seem unaffected...seem largely satisfied, we found. And we didn't stay in the metropolitan areas (save Paris)...our visits have been in the rural areas, particularly the southern sojourns (north is diluted by english visitors and their non-francofile "footprints"). Just an exceptional place to enjoy and learn the depth of human history...the shell holes from WW1 and WWII still exist in many french villages...they lived the horror first hand...and the cave-man notion probably originated there mega-years ago.
So impressed with the posts....skid's attempts (in fun, I'm sure) remind me of the directions one receives with (name it) the mini tv, rechargeable flashlight, electric pepper grinder, etc. (all made in china)...where fan and ventilate are interchangeable...and we are entertained by their obvious inadequacies in our favorite language.
Quelle drole. Love french, english, and only wish I were in a position to learn chinese...which would be the next world-wide language if only it had an alphabet....english will continue to serve as the international tongue, I suspect, for quite some time.
OK, canuck...this was "dry", eh? Exact your figurative retribution, if only to exhibit wit, or whit, cared you for one. My wine needs a recharge.
just so you know... ventilateur really does mean "fan" but in the sense of fan that cools you down. reveiller means "to wake up" like in the morning... but not morning hard on type of wake up ... just to wake up from sleeping. lol
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