Why do the French here think everybody should be learning French and not English?

by **Hanno** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:26 pm

I guess the Frogs had nowhere to run:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_of_the_Thirty

by **springrain** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:07 pm

walkjivefly wrote: The last time the frogs scored a major win over the Brits was 1066.

They weren’t frogs, they were Vikings. In fact, it was a Viking King supplanting a Viking. Harold’s name was Harold Godwinson. He had just defeated his brother, Tostig, allied with the King of Norway – Harald Hardrada, at Stamford Bridge in the NE of England. He then marched his soldiers the 270 or so miles back to confront William the Bastard.

One should remember that the Northern ‘English’ and ‘French’ nobility were a mix of Viking invaders & locals. It is well known that the Earls of Northumbria were of Danish & Anglo Saxon descent.

So it is hardly accurate to call 1066 a victory of the ‘French’ over the Énglish’.

‘Brits’ is also wildly inaccurate, as I’m sure you’ll agree.

by **springrain** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:32 pm

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by **spitthedog** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:56 am

khmerhit wrote:sorry to break it to you limey lot, but english is a FRENCH language!!!

Not so sure there mate.

For example the english word ''bollocks'' in latin is evidently ''colei'' and in French it's the near same ''couilles''.

So did the froggies nick alot of their language from the Italians then?

by **vladimir** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:35 am

khmerhit wrote:sorry to break it to you limey lot, but english is a FRENCH language!!!

It's pert of the Germanic group of languages.

by **spitthedog** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:16 am

What about Russian as a sexy language aswell? Lots of Zzzzzzzzzzz's.

Or the Brummie accent? Orlright. Fockin 'ell mate.

by **Hanno** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:05 am

Abou-Gor wrote:
vladimir wrote:Tbh, it's a lovely language, if one can get past the irregular verbs maze
Really? it sounds to me like someone sucking snot up their nose through a straw. ee yaw, ee yaw (don't forget to breathe in when pronouncing these words).
French, like Latin, is an archaic language used by the elite or elite wannabes. Yes, that's including the French. I notice a lot of French people speak the modern lingua-franca - they just refuse to use it in their paperwork and would seem to prefer everyone drop English for French in their 'colonies'. It's somewhat comparable to HE, in that nobody wants him except a bunch of selfish cnuts, but he will not give in.
Grabbing onto the last vestiges of their power. Weak.

Going from French to HE? Quite a stretch. And yes, most people would consider French to be a much more romantic and expressive language than say English.

by **Pu Li** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:43 am

khmerhit wrote:sorry to break it to you limey lot, but english is a FRENCH language!!!

Do you know that the difference between America and a yoghurt is that a yoghurt has a culture?

by **khmerhit** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:26 am

sorry to break it to you limey lot, but english is a FRENCH language!!!

by **Just Robbed** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:07 pm

Plastic Bertrand once famously said something.
Since that time and the demise of Johnny Halliday nothing of any importance has been uttered in the French language anywhere in the world.

Word on the street is that Les Frogs are so keen to keep the tricolor flying in this country that they pay the electric board to retain a French name - EDC. Bizarre but apparently true.

by **Playboy** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:46 pm

violet wrote:Playboy has clearly progressed through the stages of xx. So much more inclined to lift a finger and do the banning himself. Nice to see the change.

Careful, I still have my finger on the BanHammer ...

by **ali baba** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:44 pm

scobienz wrote:Has anyone else had enough of AG / SCC yet? I'm starting to think it's time to impose KIR's 'you're banned for being a boring twat' rule.

I prefer the containment thread policy.
A ban will just result in a new sock puppet.

by **walkjivefly** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:26 pm

vladimir wrote:
walkjivefly wrote:Too French; didn't read
Yeah, your teachers mentioned that.

You do know that the french and the Vikings were the only people who kicked the crap out of the English, right? And that a very large percentage of 'English' law, architecture, culture and language is actually of French derivation, right?

Now taites-toi and passez les chips, you pie-eating surrender monkey.

Wtf are you on about?

The last time the frogs scored a major win over the Brits was 1066. We kicked their arses pretty much every weekend for the next 800 years and saved 'em from the Krauts twice. In return they foisted the EU on us which we're finally extricating ourselves from.

Surrender monkeys generally refers to the frogs and Belgians. Getting senile in your old age?

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by **Mèo Đen** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:23 pm

Abou-Gor wrote:
vladimir wrote:Tbh, it's a lovely language, if one can get past the irregular verbs maze
Really? it sounds to me like someone sucking snot up their nose through a straw. ee yaw, ee yaw (don't forget to breathe in when pronouncing these words).
French, like Latin, is an archaic language used by the elite or elite wannabes. Yes, that's including the French. I notice a lot of French people speak the modern lingua-franca - they just refuse to use it in their paperwork and would seem to prefer everyone drop English for French in their 'colonies'. It's somewhat comparable to HE, in that nobody wants him except a bunch of selfish cnuts, but he will not give in.
Grabbing onto the last vestiges of their power. Weak.