Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. -Mark Abley, journalist (b. 1955)
On the inside wall of a cabana in Puerto Escondido there was some graffiti that read "FUCK LES ANGLAIS" One wonders whether French has been so emasculated that the French can no long swear at the English in their own language. And whether there are a bunch of toffs sitting in some academy in Paris writing the rules of French specifically prohibiting the use of the word FUCK in French.
A travel blog for the thinking clown who has drunk a little too much of the local tap water
Loiterer wisdom (II)- Linguistics
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