Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:39 pm
Now That's diplomacy-Tim
...you can replace French with Uhmerican anywhere in this thread, and it's just as "true" and just as funny.
Katy
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Now That's diplomacy-Tim
...you can replace French with Uhmerican anywhere in this thread, and it's just as "true" and just as funny.
I hope that doesn't look like a dunce hat.You have been granted the Cone of Safety, to respond as freely as you wish.
Brilliant!Preferably looking like monuments of course, so as to avoid any confusion.
Excellent!ummmmm, it IS a Dunce cap.
Thanks stargazer, for posting these sources. I will surely check them out.World War II was another story altogether. French troops in North Africa inflicted major causualties on British and American troops before deciding "Oops! Perhaps we should switch sides!" Some French generals refused to serve alongside former Vichy generals. Can't say as I blame them. (See America's Forgotten Army, The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And an Unknown Battle That Changed History by Charles Whiting)
Gee I had always been told the French GAVE UP before the Nazi's could bomb Paris to save their (urine soaked?) monuments, then started narking on their countrymen who tried to keep up the 'Resistance', and insisted on serving the Germans hand and foot.When DeGaulle addressed his people after the liberation of Paris he gave no credit to the American and British forces for that liberation, making it appear that French forces alone drove the Nazis out of Paris.
I knew an exchange student from Marseilles when I was in high school who was very friendly. She even helped me with my French homework one night, but then, she spoke colloquial Marseilles French, not Parisian. Père Eric did not agree with her assertion that one could use du as a contraction for de la as well as de le. But that's another story.. . .I have never been to France and I only know one person born there. She is a very nice person and I have seen no arrogance in her. But then, she has lived in the United States for at least 10 years. I have had several friends and acquaintances who have been to France and they are almost unanimous in their opinion that the French are some of the most unfriendly people in the world.
This is also the opinion of friends who have experience with the Quebecois, who apparently believe that Quebec is a province of France, not Canada.
William