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Let's parler franglais!

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From the BBC:

Bonjour, mes amis antiques, let's parler Franglais, as le late grand auteur and smith des bonnes mots, Miles Kington, used to dire.
Qui was Miles Kington?


Columnist and author of Let's Parler Franglais!
This series for Punch magazine mixed English and French, written in the style of a study course
He died in 2008

Au revoir Mister Franglais

Why did Joey Barton put on a French accent?

Actuellement, Miles would have been as heureux as un chien avec deux tails aujourd'hui to voir his mode of parlement catching on like a fire sauvage la-bas trans la Manche dans le pays de la grenouille, le beret, les oignons, le huile d'olive extra virgine et le cheval (galloping et gourmet).

Bien sur, he would have been, how you say, chuffed aux bits.
Moi aussi. I admire les Francais pour their grande pugilisme to preserver their tres belle language contre le sorte d'invasion from ici that has been taking lieu at least depuis 1346 and that shock away victoire by le Prince Noir at Crecy.
Et peut-etre it would be meilleur pas de mentionner Agincourt, Waterloo, Maggie Thatcher, and M David Beckham taking le Michel at PSG.
Mais. Fine mots sont un thing. Les belles sounds sont tres bien quand vous voulez faire le boogie-woogie avec, dependant on votre persuasion, un fille charmante or le garcon hot.


La Battle de Crecy
Les belles sounds sont tres bien quand vous or moi voulez chansonner les songs. Connaissez-vous Michelle by Les Beatles? You must souvenir: "Michelle, ma belle, sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble". Merveilleux!
Naturellement, no personne ici had the phantome of an idee qu'est-ce que Jean, Paul, Georges et le drummer avec le grand nez were on about, mais it sounded sophistique and sexy, bien que "ensemble" was tres difficile pour les Anglais prendre ronde les tonsils.
Englishisms in France

Les baked beans
Le booze-cruise
"The buffet is open" in the UK / "Le snack bar est ouvert" in France
C'est le must!
Tres fashion
... and more readers' franglais favourites

Is the English language conquering France?
Which portez moi to un point tres important. Si vous desirez le langage Francaise survivre pour tres jolies much longes, get votre prononciation sorti! Tous that eu, a, ong et onnhh: franchement, c'est un mess, tous over la boutique.
Pas quelle surprise que vous employez le shrug frequent with les shoulders and les brows des les yeux. C'est difficile, c'est passe; c'est, as Les Beatles chansonnent aussi Yesterday (or, excusez mon English jeu d'esprit, "Hier" today, disparu tomorrow).
Why not take a leaf out of the livre Anglais? "Franchement", pour exemple, in le dernier paragraphe, is "Frankly" in English. Plus simples. Actuellement, frankly is derived from vous ancestres, Les Franks. C'est temps a vivre up to votre nom. C'est aussi temps pour moi to introduire mes rules d'or que will be of great aide to notre French cousines dans cette situation difficile.

Michelle, ma belle, sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble
Les Beatles

Premier: quand c'est possible, avoid les mots Francaises que le reste de la monde trouve difficile to prononcer, particulierement les Anglais et les Americains. I know it can be tres amusant quand ils mangler les mots, but, a le fin de jour, I have peur that it might be une touche contre-productif. Les temps du finesse, elan, eclat savoir-faire et je ne sais quoi sonts perdus. Savvy?

Seconde: quand c'est possible, utilise seulement les mots Francaises que les Anglais et les Americains utilise dans Anglais. (En passant, je pense les Australians et les Kiwis utilise aussi, mais even je le trouve tres difficile comprendre un mot ils parlent apres "G'day" or "the All Blacks".) Nous avons grands nombres of votres expressions, so vous will still have un embarras de choix of les mots justes and apercus. Prenez cette rue, and vous will graduellement get used to it.

Pourquoi pas venez ici and avoir a "go"? If you become tres fatigue, et pour encourager yourselves, entrez un of notre restaurants Francaises superbes, ou vous pouvez parler le table d'hote et a la carte et aidez les Anglais who will be scratching les tetes over le menu and probablement ne connaissent pas their tartiflette from their andouillette.

Mais, je entends vous dites, is there une guide facile to cette Franglais? Mais oui. You could essay un livre of the doyen, M Kington, or even utilisez this piece humble. It will have less cachet but will at least servir as an aide-memoire.
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Re: Let's parler franglais!

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I got a good laugh reading this but I suspect it'll be lost on most, alas.
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Glad u enjoyed it, logos. I hope to be nicer to you and all, (well, almost all) ducky.
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logos wrote:I got a good laugh reading this but I suspect it'll be lost on most, alas.
Well, that's clearly because we're not gifted like you.
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Oooow, the claws are out!
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Gifted because I can speak French ?
Stroops, your standards are slipping !
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logos wrote:Gifted because I can speak French ?
Stroops, your standards are slipping !
I should possibly have used quotes - "gifted" - so the sarcasm was more obvious.
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StroppyChops wrote:
logos wrote:Gifted because I can speak French ?
Stroops, your standards are slipping !
I should possibly have used quotes - "gifted" - so the sarcasm was more obvious.
Ah, Logos you are a cadeau (but maybe, empoisonné ?) because tu parles francais very good , and SC is also fantastique, who s'exprime à la Strine, with the esprit very funny of the nouvelle monde. Bravo to tous. Vous are both magnifique !
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Encore moi, bel effort. Mais i'm not quite sur of what you mean avec "a la strine".
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Sorry. Austr(aili)en = strine. Speak strine as in " howzit gaing mayt".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strine
There you go, the term is a syncope :
... derived from a shortened phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent, drawing upon the tendency of this accent to run words together in a form of liaison
Shell buy royt mayt. :beer3:
(F'k SC, where are you when you could be useful ? I'm not a real strine so my vowels are a bit off. Any corrections gratefully accepted. )

Logos, OT: Ziss is how strines parlent when they are together entre eux. Isn't it formidable ? :Rose:
And is also a very tres beau language that nobody can comprend sauf the strine-speakers.
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