"Pardon my French," we say. What do the French say? nt

[raccoon]

[Deep13]

1. Allez à l'enfer! nt

[Dr. Strange]

2. Pardon my Freedom.

[racaulk]

9. LOL!

Nice! :thumbsup:

[qnr]

3. Nothing, the French don't acknowledge the existence of any other languages :) n/t

[HopeHoops]

4. Merde.

Spelling?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. "I fart in your general direction"

I saw that in a movie. It must be true.

[old mark]

6. Back in the 19th century, oral sex was referred to as the "French vice" by the English.

The French referred to it as the "English vice".

And, no, I'm not that old - I read it somewhere.

mark

[Kutjara]

7. There's a lot of that kind of semantic rivalry between France and England.

During the Renaissance, VD was known by the French as "The English Disease" and by the English as the "Malady of France." Condoms are still known colloquially in England as "French Letters" (presumably a slur on the unrestrained licentiousness of the French).

[BlueCollar]

8. "The only good thing about France

is it's between us and the Germans"

...words from my great-grandfather who saw life around his experiences in the trenches in WW1 and North Africa in WW2