Posted on 10/29/2005 10:52:41 AM PDT by cloud8
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's history of linguistic bickering between Flemings and Walloons entered a new phase this week when police arrested a Flemish woman for calling her Walloon husband lazy, Belgian media said Thursday.
The 48-year-old husband filed a complaint for racism against his spouse for scratching him and calling him "a lazy Walloon, a slave and an inferior creature," De Standaard daily said.
The 47-year-old woman will appear before a magistrate later Thursday to face charges of racism, the newspaper said.
Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons are not only linguistically divided but also split socio-economically between a prosperous Flanders and a poorer Wallonia.
***calling him "a lazy Walloon, a slave and an inferior creature,"***
Hey! YOU married him, sister!
I hope we never lose our First Amendment protections here and end up with speech police as they do in Europe and Canada!
The average American, if presented with a multiple-choice question about Walloons--
A. a French-speaking inhabitant of Belgium
B. an article of clothing in 18th-century Europe
C. an aquatic mammal
would just have to take a wild guess.
> A. a French-speaking inhabitant of Belgium
> B. an article of clothing in 18th-century Europe
> C. an aquatic mammal
LOL
D. a gold coin of the reign of Leopold II worth ten schillings.
"Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons"
Even the Dutch know what the French are.
I don't care if they are supposes to be good for me ...I don't like what Brussels Spouts!
This would also violate Texas law, and subject to arrest for assault causing bodily injury (family violence). Not because of the spoken words, but for "scratching him". Leave a mark on someone in your household in Texas because of a physical encounter like that, and its Assault CBI. The article isnt clear on the details of the arrest, in in Texas it would be a prosecutable case.
You neglected D: a sect of Islam
Yeah...but at the time he was a young, energetic, motivated Walloon.
Cross cultural marriage. Must be liberals.
And he responded, "How you English say ... I one more time-a unclog my nose in your direction, sons of a window-dresser! So, you think you could out-clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running about advancing behavior! I wave my private parts at your aunties, you heaving lot of second hand electric donkey bottom biters."
It's a misprint. She isn't a Flemish wife; she's a fish wife.
Doesn't really matter though, they're still a 24 hour breakfast: mush-for-brains and waffles all day.
Hope they didn't have kids; they'd be hybrids:
Frogs with Dutch courage.
I hope we never lose our First Amendment protections here and end up with speech police as they do in Europe and Canada!
I would have gone to jail for 50 years for what I screamed at the mechanic who screwed up my Wife's truck last weekend.
Belgium.
Less offensive words have been created in the many languages of the galaxy, such as joojooflop, swut and Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish.
The use of bad language can have unforseen circumstances. One example is the war between the G'gugvunts and the Vl'hurgs, caused by a casual remark made by Arthur Dent being mistaken as a terrible insult.
Simultaneous Babel Fish translation also means that any being can be rude to any other being without the need for extensive explanations. This has also started many wars.
The reason the Earth has been shunned for so long is also due to a language problem. On Earth, Belgium refers to a small country. Throughout the rest of the galaxy, Belgium is the most unspeakably rude word there is.
They're slaves and inferior creatures. All of them.
LOL. What is that quote from?
"Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons are not only linguistically divided but also split socio-economically between a prosperous Flanders and a poorer Wallonia"
--- You can tell the moment you cross from the German part of Belgium to the fwench part. The towns go from clean to filthy. There is a distinct change in the attitudes of the people.
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