[net.nlang] French language is not unwashed

decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) (02/02/84)

A seventeenth-century author:

    Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas francais.
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English translation:

    That which is not clear, is not French.
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English pronunciation a la World Book:

    Skee nay pah KLAIR nay pah frawnce-AY.

French was the language of diplomacy for centuries because it is less
ambiguous than others, though somewhat longer.  Maybe its pre-emption by
English contributes to all the trouble with them damn furrners who don't
understand us or even have the common decency to speak in American.

Learn at least one foreign language before you die!  You'll feel better.

Dave Decot		 "Non-Americans are people, too."
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