Re: Hello to you all!
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 11, 2002, 1:55 |
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At 15:56 2002-03-06 -0500, Karapcik, Mike wrote:
>| Yeah, and I've overheard them: "Quelle attire, et il parle
>| Français comme les Negres!" (Never mind the spelling!)
>| Of course I hoped a big African would jump out of a door
>| and punch that person down, which alas did not happen...
>
> "How quaint, they are speaking French to a Black woman"? (I don't'
>speak French.)
No, it's "What an outfit (clothes), and he speaks French like the Black
people", meaning that I was wearing something they considered not a la mode
and mangling French grammar.
/BP 8^)>
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