Les Anglophones avec les langues excrables.

[René Micout]

Hello Richmond,
Une page d'humour franco-anglaise (franglo) :
Your title : "Les Anglophones avec les langues  
excrables" ("exécrables", I suppose) is a good example of the  
difficulty...
I suppose you want to say "the Anglophones are not good with foreign  
languages" but you have said "the relation of the Anglophones with  
execrable languages" witch suppose you think that other languages are  
execrable... :-) it is not wrong sometime :-)
In good french your title should have been : "La pratique des langues  
étrangères par les anglophones est exécrable", it is not simple and  
it is not a very good french, this is better : "le peu d'intérêt des  
anglophones pour la pratique des langues étrangères", we can see that  
french is    l   o   n   g   and not very simple... :-) :-) :-)
René from Paris

Le 26 juin 08 à 11:14, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :

> Dear Rene, Viktorias, Klaus, et al,
>
> There should be no need whatsoever to apologise about the state of  
> your English. Most native English speakers are notoriously bad at  
> other languages.
>
> As a speaker of:
>
> Scots,
> really bad schoolboy French,
> Scotticised English,
> bucket Bulgarian,
>
> and various bits and bobs of Hebrew and Arabic
>
> I can honestly say that I speak from a position of authority in  
> this area!
>
> Forbye on the RR list we should be endlessly impressed that the non- 
> native speakers take such very great pains to write their messages  
> in English at all.
>
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
>
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