A Problem With A Five Word Solution

12 Replies to “A Problem With A Five Word Solution”

1. Pathetic. No, I don’t mean pathétique.

2. Yeah well francophones have a big problem with the inconvenient fact that French is no longer the “Lingua Franca”.
   I recall the French government’s futile attempt to exterminate “Jumbo” (re big airliners) and promoting as an alternative “Le Grande Porter”…
   The following year Larouse (official french dichionary) included “Jumbo” as well as “bulldozer”.

3. Half the text must be French? Fine, put some stale weather reports in the corner.

4. Merde! Mon high school Francophonie fails me at this moment.I was taught French by Ukrainian teachers forty five years ago,so am a bit rustique.
   Tabernac!

5. my favourite is the joke they have left with the US national parks system that the uniligual yanks wont translate.
   the “Grande Tetons”
   lonely fur traders

6. ok so someone at the OQLF made a mistake… so what?
   let’s get over this and no need to start a Quebec bashing thread.

7. Almost every political decision in Quebec has been a mistake for a few decades now.
   Kate, that was good advice.

8. ok so someone at the OQLF made a mistake… so what?
   let’s get over this and no need to start a Quebec bashing thread.
   Mon p’tite NDPist,,,the OQLF is the mistake.
   And we don’t bash Quebec – we laugh at it. Quebec is the Mr. Bean of North America.

9. Remember years ago when “Quest for Fire” came out,and the Queerbecers where screaming about no frog version? Is that “le grunt” or “la grunt”?

10. “Kate, that was good advice.”
    Posted by: Ken (Kulak) on February 20, 2013 8:49 PM | Reply
    Agreed, it is good advice.

11. There was a cartoon circulating in National Defence Headquarters some years ago with a soldier facing a sign that said, “DANGER MINEFIELD – francais au verso”. That could be a solution.

12. “Voulez-vous coucher avec yourself.”
    Ok, is the French version to Clint Eastwood’s famous quote to BamBam ?