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[theweaselking]

The definition of irony: Beethoven was killed by heavy metal.

Also,
Kansas State University religion professor suffers roadside beating from rednecks after saying "intelligent design" is mythology, not science.

Also,
C'est maintenant 16 ans depuis le massacre à L'Ecole Polytechnique à Montreal.

Also,
PetCell, the first cellphone for dogs.

Comments

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

Vous êtes mauvais aux maths. Elles sont étées de 16 ans dupuis le massacre.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Je ne sais pas de ce que vous parlez.

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

Vous êtes très sneaky

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"très sneaky"

Was ist das? FranzösischEnglisch, viel?

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

I know. I even tried babel fish to see if there was a French equivalent. I considered saying "Vous êtes une belette", but that seems self-evident.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Rusé? Artificieux? Étonnamment beau? L'amour de ma vie? Touchez-moi, mon belette effrénée d'amour?

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

Si n'importe quelle belette avait besoin retenir, c'est vous, votre altesse.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Modeste, aussi.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Je me suis l'homme le plus humble sur l'Internet.

(et oui, "humble" est le Français correct. J'ai vérifié.)

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

Je pense que c'est un autre Jean, non?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Don't be silly. I'm far more humble than he is.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Sans doute!

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Frenglish, it's all the rage with the kids.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Well, except for the pur laine crowd. But who cares about them, anyway? *mutter-mumble* bunch of stuck-up snobs...

-- Steve's brother, while a student at business school, had a debating partner whose parents came from India. They competed under the team name, "Big Money and the Ethnic Vote."

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Really? I was kidding. I've only heard the term Spanglish in the past (and yes, I'd heard of it long before the movie bearing that as the title came out), so I just sort went all extemporaneous from there.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Well, the Parti Quebecois has those language regulations... and I suspect that's made "le mish-mash" a Forbidden Fruit pleasure.

-- Steve's not sure if the term is "Frenglish", but the old joke of "J'ai parkee le char dans le driveway" isn't far off.

(P.S. I can't remember... is "char" a masculine or feminine noun?)

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I'm an American, I only speak bad English and what German I can remember of the 4 years of it in high school, so I have no idea how French conjugation works.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I always used the masculine "voiture".

[torrain.livejournal.com]

The term I most often hear tossed around is "Franglais".

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Me, too. Although I mostly heard that term from my elementary school teachers, who were all either francophones, or had learned French before they learned English (several of them came from former French colonies or areas of French influence).

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

That's the one the French use.

Usually in such sentences as "Le franglais c'est une abomination! Il faut protecter notre belle langue de ce adulteration! Vive la France! Vive la Francais! Mort a tout Anglais!"

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I live next door to ten million Quebecois. "Frenglish" is alive and well.

[jerril]

Oh boy is it ever. I live in a french-ish neighborhood. It's wierd beyond all belief to hear a couple of kids on the bus chatting about what they're going to do on "le weekend".

It's right up there with watching subbed anime and hear some character shout about the "boobitrapu". My gears jamn.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

French has a habit of borrowing from English, the lamentations of the Académie Française notwithstanding.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

"le weekend" is one of the few Franglais words that I believe has been officially recognised. Computers are still ordinateurs.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

I always encountered the term as 'Franglais', though. Je speak le bon French.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Would it be in poor taste to start singing, "Roll Over Beethoven"?

-- Steve's now going to have to get the mental floss to get that song out of his head.

[jerril]

I'm just humming "rock me amadeus". The Megaherz version, not the Falco one, but same diff, really.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

C'est aujourd'hui? *moment de silence*

I first learned of that day last year when denizsarikaya posted her speech on the anniversary.

I miss her, too.

[johan-g.livejournal.com]

Kansas State University religion professor suffers roadside beating from rednecks after saying "intelligent design" is mythology, not science.

Ah, yes. Such good christian children.

'I actually did that act one night in the south, then after the show these three rednecks came up to me. "Hey buddy, we're christians and we didn't like what you said". I said "Then forgive me". Later on, when I was hanging from the tree...'
-Bill Hicks