Re: and which
- From: "patrana" <pati@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 11:25:08 +0100
"John Dean" <john-dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje news:ds66lp$ein$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
D'accorde...
Isn't that d'accord? Or did you mipsel it deliberately?
It was a joke...complete with three dots.
En mi propio país se dice "la pérfida Albion"...
(To paraphrase Señor Fawlty, "Don't mention Gibraltar!")
(Est je suis sûre que
Is that "Et je suis ..."?
Yes. I mitsyped...
I was still smiling at the thought of Basil, the archetypal Englishman.
Even so, surely everybody knows the difference between "goût" and
"goutte"..er..."gote"...er "gout"..
A strange way to evaluate another's knowledge "surely everybody knows ..."
Well, you were busy correcting someone's French...sorry, *everyone's* French (and as someone will no doubt be pointing out, it is quite easy to confuse the "a" of avoir with the preposition "à"...think on't...or do you REALLY believe that the Oxford University Press and the santísimo OED have the right to misconstrue/mangle at will? The Académie and the RAE suffer from the same insufferable arrogance...but at least they are free, gratis, available to all, not reserved for the private little club that can afford 250 quids a year!)
But of course, if you don't care to answer my question I'm too well mannered to pursue the issue.
Well-mannered? You are a true middle class limey...;-)
Do you mean the "gout" versus. "goût" polemic?
Just a pair of stags locking horns...the dreary old wine versus beer syndrome. And besides, they all sound the same to me...the stags AND the gouûts...
BTW, was it your parents or your teachers who taught you to insult strangers, or did you work it out for yourself?
My parents could barely read or write, and, even then, in a pointless, marginal little language that no one but a bunch of nationalistic farts (like Reilly) were/are the tiniest bit interested in. I've spent most of my life forgetting it...
They were more concerned with fish (I still hate the smell of the things!) than fonetics...oops! (By the way...why doesn't/don't fish have a plural?)
Teachers were nothing too good...Franco seemed to vent most of his spleen on the north and the south...But my aunt Encarnación (Carni for short!) ran off and married an Englander...;-)
As for insults...well, I don't see them as that: just humorous asides...;-)
None of the malice has come from me...but some of you guys seem have it running through your veins. Especially if someone has the hubris to transcend your precious liberal parameters.
I suppose you know the story about Britain and its heart attacks...you know, it's not drinking wine and eating meat and smoking tabaco that kills you, it's speaking Englissshhh...
Do you think it more or less creditable to you to insult them in a language without knowing how well they understand it?
Not much point in that is there?
You started the French bit, not me.
As I said earlier, you were the one locking horns with the franchute. I'm even getting Latvian/Lithuanian(?) clichés thrown at me now by Skitt the wit, the wayward from Hayward...
So what? It will do me good to go and find out what he's babbling about.
(Do you think he may have been a CIA agent, speaking a funny little language like that? Perhaps it carries a coded message! Though what there could possibly be to encode escapes my imagination.)
Do cheer up, John.
Have a therapeutic peep at your dreaming spires...or is that Cambridge???
(Now there's an insult if ever there was one...)
patrana
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