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Subject: [worldcruising] Re: Does anybody really know what time it is?
From: captmhunt (captmhunt@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 13:51:56 EDT
It's what you would expect from a country that has an official bureau
of language purity. Every year these officials get together and BAN
the use of words and terms that are not properly...er... FRENCH...
that have crept into the language during the previous year. And THAT
is how 'Hamburger' came to be called "Fillet Amercaine".
captmhunt@XXX.XXX
--- In worldcruising@XXX.XXX wrote:
> That's funny, but oh so true! I've heard that the French are such
control
> freaks that telephone calls and letters between islands in the FWI
have to go
> to Paris first!
>
>
> In a message dated 9/1/2002 11:59:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> captmhunt@XXX.XXX writes:
>
>
> > It may have taken them 150 years
> > or so, but they eventually did get even. :-)
> >
> > Reminds me of the old arguement about "Hertz" and "Cycles per
Second"
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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