Re: CHAT: silly names
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 27, 2001, 8:04 |
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En réponse à Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>:
>
> Hm. In Hungarian the most polite way to tell someone to sod off is to
> say
> "go to France". This dates to when there were French troops in Hungary
> after the first World War, and the commonly held belief was that their
> job
> was to spread Syphilis to the Hungarian population.
>
Wasn't it? :) Well, as for the image of France in the rest of the world, I
always have in mind the Dutch expression "de Franse weg": the French way. Things
done in the French way for Dutch people are things only half-done, done in a
messy way. Well, I hate to say that but they are right...
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr