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"Bob (this one)" > wrote in news:10jf4tr1eoig540
@corp.supernews.com: > wrote: > >> The first thing we were taught in French class is that the things that >> were not OBVIOUSLY male or female were arbitrarily designated a gender >> as the French were in a hurry to create their own language and get as >> far away from English as possible....(I had never realized the French >> spoke only English til they developed "French" ) > > Um, It's not even possible to say how ridiculously wrong this is. > Maybe even too stupid to even deal with. > > Jeeezus, you are dim. Watch Mel Brooks' "History of the World, Part 1". There's a scene involving the French Revolution in which Cloris Leachman retorts in a thick French accent, "We're so poor, we can't even afford our own language. All we have is this stupid accent!"  http://imdb.com/title/tt0082517/ |
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