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So I'm sorry you won't miss french. I'm sure the french won't miss you either when you're serving them "freedom fries" with that.



WTF dude, snobby ass thinks i'm a Fu&#Ing Fast food order taker and will be the rest of my life - whatever. You need to get off your soap box about who you are and relax - you take shit too seriously.
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Personally, I see nothing wrong with that. The French language is an important watermark of Western Culture, and must therefore be preserved.
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Personally, I see nothing wrong with that. The French language is an important watermark of Western Culture, and must therefore be preserved.



Preserved in Museums... Global communication is becoming more and more necessary. Translating everything into multiple languages is a huge waste of resources. Some day, everyone will speak one language, so we can all easily communicate. I don't think french people like that idea very much.

You can fight progress, you can delay progress, but it will win in the end. Languages have been dying out for years. French will be the one of the last, but its days are still numbered.

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It is the way in which they give hundreds of millions of dollars ( most of which comes from English Canada ) to francophone companies, i.e. Bombardier, Quebecor ), and the list is endless.



DUDE!!!! Bombardier didnt get money because the company's french!!!! They got money because they build a superior product unmatched by anyone else in the world!!!! Why do you think Europeans are buying Bombardier trains and Regional Jets? because the Canadians goverment kissed their ass? I think not.

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Preserved in Museums... Global communication is becoming more and more necessary. Translating everything into multiple languages is a huge waste of resources. Some day, everyone will speak one language



Easy to say when the language you speak is becoming the lingua franca. But it won't take over everyday talk in most countries, nor should it.

100 years ago every educated person spoke French. Do you really think that English, as we speak it, is the be-all and end-all of languages? Its main strength is its huge vocabulary. Gigantic. But it's not perfect.

What the French do in their country is probably their business. I notice, too, that no one said anything about freedom kissing, or a freedom tickler :D

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I notice, too, that no one said anything about freedom kissing, or a freedom tickler



BWAAAAHHHHHH, too funny wendy. That will probably make the worst pick up lines thread...."hey baby, wanna see my freedom tickler?":D

Besides, the only thing the french have contributed to society is mayonaise:P and have you ever seen them drown their freedom fries in that shit? LOL
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personnaly the french are a bunch of cowards hiding behind a liberal agenda. Oh did I say the majority of the french should stick their head up their arse!!! Ooops I should be more politically correct!! Actually I am certain that some of the french are fine people; however, the rest are a bunch of liberal miscontents!!!!! It would be good if they were vaporized.

Normally I am not such an ass yet for a country that has lost every war it has been involved in it should really get a clue.

Ok I am tired of picking on the french!
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Has anyone thought that if we are all going to end up speaking one language it will probably be Manderin Chinese just due to the number of native speakers? I think I will be in trouble, I can only order dinner in chinese by using the numbers :D
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I was trying to keep quiet here but this kind of tips it over the edge. With that post you ( and some other posters above) have destroyed most of the good impression I have gained about the people in this forum. I had found you guys to be above average in open-mindedness, tolerance and similar qualities. This one set me back quite a bit.

The way even educated US-citizens are now hating everybody and everything french due to a political decision of their government which happened to not agree with the wishes of the US utterly appals me.

But you probably couldn´t care less because I´m from Europe too.

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I had found you guys to be above average in open-mindedness, tolerance and similar qualities. This one set me back quite a bit.




Dude...it's not all of us. I joke because I love. ;) Oh man...you're German. A good friend of mine here lived in Germany for 12 years. He is also married to a German Woman. He has a never ending stream of jokes to razz his wife. Stuff like....she was complaining about having to take tests in English. He says ..."You know......if you guys hadn't invaded Russia....." :D Of course...she gets really mad and cusses him in Deutch. :D The guy has a million of em.

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The way even educated US-citizens are now hating everybody and everything french due to a political decision of their government



Well for me, and many other people, this disdain for things french have been around longer than the current political spat. Quite honestly, the only experiences I have ever had with french speaking people were negative. The first, when I was 17, was when I was working in a restaurant in a small town in Wisconsin. I went to take an order at a table, and they started speaking to me in french. I was polite and apologized that I couldn't speak the language. But, then I got yelled at... These people started chewing my @ss because I couldn't speak french. The whole experience was not good. Quite honestly they were the rudest bunch of jerks I had ever seen.

Now if this incident was isolated, no problem. But, it has not been. Even the French government acknowledges the rudeness of its own people. Did you know they have begun a media campaign to try to get French people to smile and be nicer to tourists? http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/frenchkiss_030616.html

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The way even educated US-citizens are now hating everybody and everything french due to a political decision of their government which happened to not agree with the wishes of the US utterly appals me.


Thomas
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You can infer educational level by looking at grammar and spelling. I do not think that the comments you responded to represent an "educated" viewpoint.
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You can infer educational level by looking at grammar and spelling. I do not think that the comments you responded to represent an "educated" viewpoint.



I am only too willing to assume you are right. Sorry for putting all of you "into the same drawer" as a German idiom would say.

Thomas
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>Wow, that's stupid to forbid people to use the term "Email." What
>bitter pansies.

I'd say it's about as bad as renaming "french fries" to "freedom fries" out of spite.



Hardly dude. There was no official US "ministry" that mandated the use of the term "freedom fries". Besides, I kept forgetting to call them freedom fries and gave up on any conscious effort to do so. What about you? ;)

The French "culture" ministry and the depth of this type of prideful propaganda would be laughable if it wasn't so stupid and potentially dangerous. Who else can name some "ministries" in Europe that exterted this type of influence on its own people in say the past 60-70 years? Socialism is socialism...:S
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Ack! I feel like quite a 'tard for not anticipating the development of this thread... It got WAY serious and even mean in some posts, which was not- I repeat, NOT- my intention.

Just to be clear- I posted this for fun (again though, 'DUH Becca!', for not seeing this coming) I am not against any one nationality, and will gladly poke fun at my own country. In fact, if you're gonna laugh at someone else (truly one life's pleasures), then you have to be able to laugh at yourself, too. Absurd shit is universal. While I'm sure everyone here is patriotic and proud to be whatever nationality you are, we ALL need to lighten TF up. Life is too short to take anything THIS silly too seriously.

OK, my $.02- carry on.

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actually courriel first came from Canada... Cuz they frenchise english words like crazy... and also use english words while correct french words exist for the same thing...
but don't americans use the word teathre i.o theatre, night instead of night, believe that an ass is a part of the anatomy which people sit on (actually an ass is a donkey...) etc... and remember, the US are the birthplace of JACKASS...
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and also use english words while correct french words exist for the same thing...



Actually, in Quebec, most anglisisms are grammar based, not vocabulary based.

Its in France where they use very strange vocabulary anglisisms. And yep, Courriel has been used in Quebec for years and years now.

And Chuteless: life must be hard for the oppressed.... how do you manage to get out of bed every morning if life is so hard to get through.... If you dont like the fact that you live in a billingual contry where being billingual is an advantage in Federal functions, maybe its time you think of moving....
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"Learn a second language and you will go alot farther in life." I make $15000 more a year than a guy who has the same job as me because I can speak both languages.

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First of all I am not bilingual, not tri-lingual but quadrilingual. So I am not going to say anything negative about learning more languages. Hell I think its cool. However there is such a thing as the most important language to know and that language is English. Why you ask? well we could be politically correct and just say that for some mysterious reason this is the language that most people of the world strive to learn. Or we could take it one step further and state the reason MOST people want to learn English. The reason is because that is the language spoken in the undisputed best country in the world, the country where half the rest of the world would pack up and move to in a heartbeat if you gave them a greencard. Yes ofcourse the U.S.
Don't get me wrong I understand very clearly why the French act the way they do. They have deeply rooted ugly feelings of envy toward the U.S. mostly because 100 years ago their language mattered more on a global scale and they just can't get over the fact that times have changed.
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