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Au revoir Mister Franglais

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    Here you go Karl, here's a subject to (no doubt) boil the blood of any good Frenchman (uh... no, no, I mustn't... :laugh: ) Au revoir Mister Franglais[^] I must say though, people are always very unfair about the English when it comes to foreign languages. I suspect that the only reason we have a (sort of) phobia about it is because whenever we do speak in one, we get laughed at. For example, when a Frenchman speaks English with their native accent everyone thinks it's wonderful - but when a Brit speaks French with an English accent it is considered a subject fit for ridicule. No wonder we give up. But really, objectively, why is one more risible than the other?

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      Here you go Karl, here's a subject to (no doubt) boil the blood of any good Frenchman (uh... no, no, I mustn't... :laugh: ) Au revoir Mister Franglais[^] I must say though, people are always very unfair about the English when it comes to foreign languages. I suspect that the only reason we have a (sort of) phobia about it is because whenever we do speak in one, we get laughed at. For example, when a Frenchman speaks English with their native accent everyone thinks it's wonderful - but when a Brit speaks French with an English accent it is considered a subject fit for ridicule. No wonder we give up. But really, objectively, why is one more risible than the other?

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      I've never thought of that. No non-English speaker things a native English speaker's accent is sexy. In the US we think all the other English accents are sexy. I've never heard anything in an American accent is sexy though.

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        Here you go Karl, here's a subject to (no doubt) boil the blood of any good Frenchman (uh... no, no, I mustn't... :laugh: ) Au revoir Mister Franglais[^] I must say though, people are always very unfair about the English when it comes to foreign languages. I suspect that the only reason we have a (sort of) phobia about it is because whenever we do speak in one, we get laughed at. For example, when a Frenchman speaks English with their native accent everyone thinks it's wonderful - but when a Brit speaks French with an English accent it is considered a subject fit for ridicule. No wonder we give up. But really, objectively, why is one more risible than the other?

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        That article does not expose the dark side of Franglais. It is well known that many Franglais practitioners use animal experimentation to develop there Franglais expertise. Some force the captive animals to listen to their renditions of Franglais for hours on end without more than small moments of silence.

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          Here you go Karl, here's a subject to (no doubt) boil the blood of any good Frenchman (uh... no, no, I mustn't... :laugh: ) Au revoir Mister Franglais[^] I must say though, people are always very unfair about the English when it comes to foreign languages. I suspect that the only reason we have a (sort of) phobia about it is because whenever we do speak in one, we get laughed at. For example, when a Frenchman speaks English with their native accent everyone thinks it's wonderful - but when a Brit speaks French with an English accent it is considered a subject fit for ridicule. No wonder we give up. But really, objectively, why is one more risible than the other?

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          Insert as many French words as you know into the sentence, fill in the rest with English, then speak it with absolute conviction There is, of course, a requirement to know at least one applicable french word per two english ones.

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            Here you go Karl, here's a subject to (no doubt) boil the blood of any good Frenchman (uh... no, no, I mustn't... :laugh: ) Au revoir Mister Franglais[^] I must say though, people are always very unfair about the English when it comes to foreign languages. I suspect that the only reason we have a (sort of) phobia about it is because whenever we do speak in one, we get laughed at. For example, when a Frenchman speaks English with their native accent everyone thinks it's wonderful - but when a Brit speaks French with an English accent it is considered a subject fit for ridicule. No wonder we give up. But really, objectively, why is one more risible than the other?

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            Fred_Smith wrote:

            For example, when a Frenchman speaks English with their native accent everyone thinks it's wonderful - but when a Brit speaks French with an English accent it is considered a subject fit for ridicule

            Well, aparently the French find us, the Brits, speaking French just as sexy as we find them speaking English.

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