need help identifying something... from A Bridge Too Far

[Donny Fenn1]

HAHA, makes me smile..

You like my mother tongue don't you?
I often hear english people say french words like: rendez-vous, bon appétit, à propos, au revoir, crème de la crème, touché or, in this case, gendarmerie.

Allez, avouez-le.. En vérité, vous aimez le français, c'est très "chic" d'inclure des mots français dans les phrases.

I must admit that we often use english words too, so that makes us even!

yeh but when we use "french" words the language polise don't fine us or thereaten to close our businesses

 

[PatLaf]

yeh but when we use "french" words the language polise don't fine us or thereaten to close our businesses

touché!

I know, our dear government is prone to react when it comes to language issue. Everything, in my understanding, comes from the fact that these people are afraid that the future generation gets assimilated and looses their mother tongue. They don't realize that it's a gift for someone to know more than one language. But that, my friend, is another story and I don't mean to divert the topic of this thread.