If you take a taxi across Paris and the driver thinks you do not know French (but you secretly do), you will feel like killing him before you get to your destination.
I lived in the Mid-East and loved hearing my blond hair, blue eyes cursed to hell. I would listen with a smile and a dumb American look on my face. When I departed them, I would address them in Arabic.
There’s an old joke I remember: What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks only one language? American.
Whore = “une putain” (this has been known to create muffled sniggers when the Russian president visited France, as “Putin” is not a million miles away from “putain”, pronunciation-wise.)
“How do you say ‘redneck’ in French?”
A possibly dated way of calling somebody a redneck is to use the phrase “pied-noir”, or blackfoot: this alleges both an intimate association with the fine soil of France (“red-neck” is also an insult thrown at dim yokels whose necks grow sunburnt due to toil in the fields) and a disposition to avoid washing said feet so there’s only one way they can go. “Pied-noir” was an insult often thrown at French colonists in Algeria, who saaw themselves and their country as being French, whilst French people from the mainland saw them as peculiar white African colonists - much as the British view white South Africans, in fact.
Ie, a thick inbred yokel hillbilly with an aversion to soap…
margueritem about 14 years ago
LOL! Sometimes being an airhead can be a good thing.
Sisyphos about 14 years ago
Donna’s heart is too big just as her brain is too small….
ejcapulet about 14 years ago
You know, they might work out okay. She refuses to take offense and he doesn’t give a hoot.
hawgowar about 14 years ago
If you take a taxi across Paris and the driver thinks you do not know French (but you secretly do), you will feel like killing him before you get to your destination.
The missing M. Smokey about 14 years ago
How do you translate “ditz”?
wraith13 about 14 years ago
if you put your ear to Donna’s head….you can hear the ocean
arsmall about 14 years ago
LoL! I was wondering if she was speaking French because yesterday, Donna asked if she called her a “whore”, that must’ve been in english.
lewisbower about 14 years ago
I lived in the Mid-East and loved hearing my blond hair, blue eyes cursed to hell. I would listen with a smile and a dumb American look on my face. When I departed them, I would address them in Arabic.
catmandew about 14 years ago
There’s an old joke I remember: What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks only one language? American.
Thraceguy about 14 years ago
One hates to think what the Grandparents on both sides were like… The French are not so different? How do you say ‘redneck’ in French?
cdward about 14 years ago
^But I’ve met many Americans who expect the Parisians to speak English to them.
deadheadzan about 14 years ago
French is a lovely language to listen to, even though you do not know French. It just Sounds so elegant!
autumnfire1957 about 14 years ago
Ya know, not all French are obnoxious. I loved LeBou on “Hogan’s Heros”
runar about 14 years ago
I hope this won’t be the start of a bunch of mother-in-law jokes (assuming Pierre & Donna actually go through with this).
AgProv about 14 years ago
Whore = “une putain” (this has been known to create muffled sniggers when the Russian president visited France, as “Putin” is not a million miles away from “putain”, pronunciation-wise.)
“How do you say ‘redneck’ in French?”
A possibly dated way of calling somebody a redneck is to use the phrase “pied-noir”, or blackfoot: this alleges both an intimate association with the fine soil of France (“red-neck” is also an insult thrown at dim yokels whose necks grow sunburnt due to toil in the fields) and a disposition to avoid washing said feet so there’s only one way they can go. “Pied-noir” was an insult often thrown at French colonists in Algeria, who saaw themselves and their country as being French, whilst French people from the mainland saw them as peculiar white African colonists - much as the British view white South Africans, in fact.
Ie, a thick inbred yokel hillbilly with an aversion to soap…