Definitive French

Langa's list | French

[prognostigaator]

France has had an 80% loss of tourists from the USA thus far this year...

The following translations are for the 20 % who choose to visit la belle France.....

1. Suivez la piste: Follow the drunken woman
2. Hors de combat: Ladies of easy virtue, who specialise in military clients
3. La vie en rose: The pink aircraft (this can also mean rare meat, depending on the context)
4. Tant pis: My aunt is in the bathroom
5. En garde: In the railway station
6. Femme fatale: A dead woman
7. Coup de grace: Lawn mower
8. Coupe de glace: A Chinese putting somebody out of his misery
9. Grand cru: The Swiss team that won the America's cup
10. Neanmoins: Even smaller than a midget
11. Chaumiere: A place where unemployed people live

[Nick Danger]

[PetroniDE]

Do you know what the French word "Maginot" means? Welcome.

Look at French military history this way; it has been a longer drought for the French in war than the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series.

[CWOJackson]

I wish you people would stop making fun of the French. They have a proud military tradition. Of course more Frenchmen died defending Berlin from Russians in WWII (serving in an SS Division) then in defending Paris from Germans.