Re: OT: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?

En réponse à Sally Caves <scaves@...>:

>
> I'm with ya, Christophe... The "menu mutiny" was so puerile I cringed.
> Roared with laughter first... then got angry.  So will it be Freedom's
> Mustard next? (you have to live over here and eat a lot of hot dogs to
> get
> that joke!).
LOL. I got it :)) . I complain enough here that what they sell as "Franse
Mosterd" (although if the Dutch had to follow the American example it would
become "Vrijheid Mosterd" ;))) ) has nothing to do with true Fr... mustard ;)) .

  I know they think it's "funny" in the White House, and a
> "f**k
> you" to France,
As if we cared, since most French people don't know English anyway, and don't
know that "frites" are called "French fries" over there ;)) .

> Nor did we get French Toast.  God forbid that we should disapprove of
> Belgium and have to change the name of Brussels sprouts to... "little
> cabbages"!  ;-)  Which is what I think they call them over there.
> Maybe
> they don't... I don't know.  Choux de Bruxelles?
>
Indeed, that's the French name. Here in Holland it's usually
simply "spruitjes", i.e. "little sprouts".

> Maybe we could replace every foreign concept we don't like with the
> word
> "freedom."  French dressing.  Freedom dressing!  Arabic numerals.
> Freedom
> numerals!  Russian Roulette. Freedom Roulette!  Oops, but that's a
> Freedom
> borrowing, there.
>
LOL. I like it! With time, the word "freedom" will come to mean "foreign" ;))) .

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.

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