Re: CHAT: An introduction

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Not "even-more-arrogant-than-usual", just "as-arrogant-as-usual" ;)))) .
> The French in general don't have a very high opinion of the Americans
> already, that it's not the use of "nous" (unless you begin to use it for
> yourself, as the "nous de majest )Bé" :)) ) which is gonna change anything :))
> . Note that I am the first to recognise how stereotyped the French vision
> of other countries is :)) .
When my boss went to Paris to discuss some disputed points with her
French counterpart (our companies were both Reuters subsidiaries in the
health news field), she asked me if I had anything to suggest.

"Remember that the French are almost as arrogant as we are," I said.

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