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After being mistaken for French in the forums I had a fleeting moment of inspiration. I should be French. I'm already insanely liberal and prentious. I makes perfect sense. I've started the ball rolling by ordering a Visa Application from the French Mission to Australia. The second step is learning French, until then, I plan to just mumble english with a bad French accent and hope for the best!

Wish me luck!

You'll need to learn to look down your nose at Anglophones.

Good luck on that.

After being mistaken for French in the forums I had a fleeting moment of inspiration. I should be French. I'm already insanely liberal and prentious. I makes perfect sense. I've started the ball rolling by ordering a Visa Application from the French Mission to Australia. The second step is learning French, until then, I plan to just mumble english with a bad French accent and hope for the best!

Wish me luck!

Regard c'est cerf!

Either that or

Ils sont fou. Les angalais.

Then I got it bred out of me.

Of course this is just in the view that we are genetically our ancestors and thus the successive change in our family line of DNA down up to us in the present.

You'll need to learn to look down your nose at Anglophones.

Good luck on that.
I already do, it's perfect!

Plus I've already said "Shut up you ignorant American pig-dog!" twice today. :D

Americains stupids is also a popular one. Learning French is tough, but not impossible :)

I should have been a scandinavian, I think more like them than anything else :p

Americains stupids is also a popular one. Learning French is tough, but not impossible :)

I should have been a scandinavian, I think more like them than anything else :p
I was so pissed when my mum told me before we moved to Australia, Holland was main choice (She speaks fluent High Dutch) and was considering France or Germany (She also speaks German) until my Grandmother convinced her to come to Australia

"J'ne parle Français." is the only french phrase you will ever need.

After being mistaken for French in the forums I had a fleeting moment of inspiration. I should be French. I'm already insanely liberal and prentious. I makes perfect sense. I've started the ball rolling by ordering a Visa Application from the French Mission to Australia. The second step is learning French, until then, I plan to just mumble english with a bad French accent and hope for the best!

Wish me luck!

bonne chance ;) start to memorize french cursings

Haha how come your mother speaks high dutch? Is she of dutch lineage? I am South African with dutch blood, so both my parents are fluent in Afrikaans and Dutch...too bad I'm not :p

Sigh, still wished we had moved to Sweden though :(

Haha how come your mother speaks high dutch? Is she of dutch lineage? I am South African with dutch blood, so both my parents are fluent in Afrikaans and Dutch...too bad I'm not :p

Sigh, still wished we had moved to Sweden though :(


I'd be up for moving to Sweden. Not for the social welfare, though ;) .

"J'ne parle Français." is the only french phrase you will ever need.

nuh uh! it's je ne parle pas francais (the c needs that curly thing but I don't know how to make my computer go frenchy)

"J'ne parle Français." is the only french phrase you will ever need.


It's "Je ne parle pas Français" --------better learn your French if you intend to speak on this forum, because it will soon be overtaken by Quebec nationalists!

Haha how come your mother speaks high dutch? Is she of dutch lineage? I am South African with dutch blood, so both my parents are fluent in Afrikaans and Dutch...too bad I'm not :p

Sigh, still wished we had moved to Sweden though :(
Upper Middle-Class Cape Coloureds. I have no idea why she is so multi-lingual. But she lectured at Kapse Technikon University and for some reason decided I only needed to learn English.

Haha if anything I'd go their for the culture, the place and the people :)

Upper Middle-Class Cape Coloureds. I have no idea why she is so multi-lingual. But she lectured at Kapse Technikon University and for some reason decided I only needed to learn English.
My parents, despite being afrikaaners, never taught me Afrikaans :( Wish I had learnt it. Also upper middle class, but white (afrikaaners sort of gives that away :p).

It's "Je ne parle pas Français" --------better learn your French if you intend to speak on this forum, because it will soon be overtaken by Quebec nationalists!
"J'ne" is a perfectly legitimate shortening of "Je ne", and why should I bother with my French grammar when I am claiming not to know French at all?
But I suppose it works best if you can say it perfectly, so, yeah . . .

My parents, despite being afrikaaners, never taught me Afrikaans :( Wish I had learnt it. Also upper middle class, but white (afrikaaners sort of gives that away :p).
lol. Hey, tell me I'm not the only one who has trouble explaining why our X'hosa servants had to live in seperate quarters...?

Haha, its the European thing to do I guess? Servants always lived in separate quarters. This holds true even in the USA.

"J'ne" is a perfectly legitimate shortening of "Je ne", and why should I bother with my French grammar when I am claiming not to know French at all?
But I suppose it works best if you can say it perfectly, so, yeah . . .

It's not legitimate when written, but French people shorten it to that all the time when speaking...

But really Rotovia- French?!

Correct, the written form in french is usually francais courant, or perhaps even soutenu. In spoken form, its fine though to shorten it for pronounciation purposes.

Haha, its the European thing to do I guess? Servants always lived in separate quarters. This holds true even in the USA.
True. I was still pretty traumatized by the fact my mum hired a wetnurse! The nanny, the cooks, the maids, the driver were all cool. But a wetnurse? WTF?!

It not legitimate when writen, but French people shorten it to that all the time when speaking...

But really Rotovia- French?!
Why not?;)

Hey I never got a driver! :p But yeh, at least we give these people jobs I guess ;)

and what do you expect to do for work in france?

or are you only going to be french in australia?

Hey I never got a driver! :p But yeh, at least we give these people jobs I guess ;)
It's a shame we didn't pay them well though. At least we paid them though. That would be an interesting explaination to none ZAers

and what do you expect to do for work in france?

or are you only going to be french in australia?
I clearly never thought that far ahead...

:p Yeah, many people think we drove them into slavery...not true! :p

Don't you have to live in France for a number of years to be French?

It's not legitimate when written, but French people shorten it to that all the time when speaking...
Don't try swinging your European Linguist's tricks with me!
I learned more than just how to set a table and the proper etiquette when giving/recieving gifts in France in my year of High School French. Not much more, but a bit.

:p Yeah, many people think we drove them into slavery...not true! :p

Don't you have to live in France for a number of years to be French?
That sounds like work...

You would make a perfect Frenchman! Really I mean that. I say we all chip in for your surgery. Im curious is it a painful procedure?

You would make a perfect Frenchman! Really I mean that. I say we all chip in for your surgery. Im curious is it a painful procedure?
Penis extensions? Very

Good one :p

Penis extensions? Very

Your changing from French to non-French?

Isn't this like a catch 22? I mean, you want to turn French, but as you get more French, you'll have an overwhelming urge to just give up, right? So how do you go about being French, without quitting because your too French?

Your changing from French to non-French?
Now see, that makes no damned sense.

Isn't this like a catch 22? I mean, you want to turn French, but as you get more French, you'll have an overwhelming urge to just give up, right? So how do you go about being French, without quitting because your too French?
It's my cross to bare...

Now see, that makes no damned sense.

With the penis extensions. Think about it....

Now see, that makes no damned sense.
He's saying Americans have enourmous Units, obviously. ;)

He's saying Americans have enourmous Units, obviously. ;)


Heh, I figure everyone knows that. How silly of me...

Wish me luck!
Bon Chance! Les Anglophone sont teh suck!

I was so pissed when my mum told me before we moved to Australia, Holland was main choice (She speaks fluent High Dutch) and was considering France or Germany (She also speaks German) until my Grandmother convinced her to come to Australia Ou est-ce que vous avez déménagé de?

With the penis extensions. Think about it....
Well considering I've repeatedly mentioned I'm becomming French, I presumed your gaping twat had you confused...?

;)

Bon Chance! Les Anglophone sont teh suck!

Ou est-ce que vous avez déménagé de?
Say wha...?

Say wha...?
I said:Good Luck! English-speakers are teh suck!

And:Where did you move from?

I thought you were French?

Well considering I've repeatedly mentioned I'm becomming French, I presumed your gaping twat had you confused...?

;)


Nah I think yours let a simple joke pass right over your head. By the way that is one of the first signs of being Frenchified. Yes, I made up that last word there.;)

Don't try swinging your European Linguist's tricks with me!
I learned more than just how to set a table and the proper etiquette when giving/recieving gifts in France in my year of High School French. Not much more, but a bit.


...I'm not European.

I said:Good Luck! English-speakers are teh suck!

And:Where did you move from?

I thought you were French?
If I told you, I'd have to kill you...;)

Bon Chance! Les Anglophone sont teh suck!


L'anglais est la langue la plus frequente dans le monde entier,pas comme le francais.

si tu peux donner une preuve que ce que j'ai dis n'est pas vrais.fait-le!:D

Well, I can't read your first post so I will take a shot in the dark.

So, you are going french? Should I go buy you some track shoes and a white flag? Those items make you blend right in with the natives. :D

Well, I can't read your first post so I will take a shot in the dark.

So, you are going french? Should I go buy you some track shoes and a white flag? Those items make you blend right in with the natives. :D
I presume I'll receive those at the airport. But thank you anyway.

I presume I'll receive those at the airport. But thank you anyway.
It's airpor en Francais.

It's airpor en Francais.
My bad ;)

L'anglais est la langue la plus frequente dans le monde entier,pas comme le francais.

si tu peux donner une preuve que ce que j'ai dis n'est pas vrais.fait-le!:D
C'est vrai, mais je trouve que le francais soit le langue le plus beau :)

Running away from the evil police state of Australia, Rotovia?

Ah yes, I remember my days of French in high school.

Loved it so much I dropped it as soon as I got to university :D

Two words:

Bière
Merde

It's airpor en Francais.

Aéroport... or something like it. Not airpor.

Gah, il y a des americains que l'on peut pas croire ici.

Pourquoi? :p C'est vrai qu'ils sont etranges, c'est naturel, ils sont americains :p