And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I have traveled quite a bit all over "Mother Earth" and can confirm that the cheese-eating frogs... especially in the city of Paris are perfect azz holes when you make the slightest attempt to speak their language.
Go figure. The French adore anything Jerry Lewis. Of the Americans, the French act as if it we all put ketchup on filet mignon. We do but they get so testy about it
A frog in his homeland will sneer at you. A Frenchie in the states will pretend a certain tolerance. However, about a quarter of them will show some affinity towards you when you trouble yourself with their language.
Conjugating the verbs is my Achilles heel when trying that language. Expect the same treatment from the Quebecoise. That is funny because the French absolutely disapprove of the Kay-bek-ites. But they are sometimes sneaky about it. As deceiving as a Chinaman.
On high school I took a spanish class. Because of a girl, not for the language. The teacher demanded the Catalonian dialect. He had sharp rebuke for the students who fell into the slovenly Mexican.
The French think so little of their language, they expect everyone to be able to speak it like a native.
ReplyDeleteThey even look down (over? around? past?) their noses at French Canadians’ French.
DeleteI have traveled quite a bit all over "Mother Earth" and can confirm that the cheese-eating frogs... especially in the city of Paris are perfect azz holes when you make the slightest attempt to speak their language.
ReplyDeleteGo figure. The French adore anything Jerry Lewis. Of the Americans, the French act as if it we all put ketchup on filet mignon. We do but they get so testy about it
DeleteA frog in his homeland will sneer at you. A Frenchie in the states will pretend a certain tolerance. However, about a quarter of them will show some affinity towards you when you trouble yourself with their language.
ReplyDeleteConjugating the verbs is my Achilles heel when trying that language. Expect the same treatment from the Quebecoise. That is funny because the French absolutely disapprove of the Kay-bek-ites. But they are sometimes sneaky about it. As deceiving as a Chinaman.
The most obnoxious French speakers ARE NOT in France, but in Quebec.
ReplyDeleteOnce you get east enough in the Maritimes, where France, not Canada, has a province, you'll be alright.
DeleteThen there is the Cajuns, who laugh at all those sissified modern French who don't understand the language of King Louis I through XIV.
ReplyDeleteI am not particularly fond of Longfellow, but Evangeline just tears my heart.
DeleteSpain is very tolerant of my Mexcan-Spanish except in Barcelona. The people in Barcelona are all trained by the French.
ReplyDeleteOn high school I took a spanish class. Because of a girl, not for the language.
DeleteThe teacher demanded the Catalonian dialect. He had sharp rebuke for the students who fell into the slovenly Mexican.
I mean, the castellano
DeleteI did find that the Italians tolerated my Mexican - Spanish pretty well.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely true with respect to Germany. Every time I spoke German to a German they would reply in English.
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