Re: Country Park Moot again
- From: "Mike Jones" <admin@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:39:04 GMT
Malc wrote:
> "Austin Shackles" <austinNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:i588h11pmo5nf6kj27o16hq40bh2bdgmma@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On or around 29 Aug 2005 07:31:26 -0700, "Totty" <stoll.jo@xxxxxxxxx>
>> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>> Spannerland seems to have adopted some English verbs and turned them
>>> into nouns...el parking for carpark, el camping for campsite and my
>>> favourite...un tuning for a custom car rally...
>>
>> the Serapu have some as well, I believe you get le camping, and le
>> weekend.
>
> Reminds me of the Rowan Atkinson song "That's Why I Hate the French".
>
> "They even steal from us the words that they lack,"
> "Le weekend, le camping and cul de sac."
> "That's why I hate the French"
I was told by a very straight-faced chap that the Serapu don't call a dead
end street that name.
He may have been lying.
Was it that Usanian Ron Raygun that claimed that the French didn't even know
the meaning of detente (or was it the Russsians and Glasnost?)
.
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