Hello Richmond,
Une page d'humour franco-anglaise (franglo) :
Your title : "Les Anglophones avec les langues
excrables" ("exécrables", I suppose) is a good example of the
difficulty...
I suppose you want to say "the Anglophones are not good with foreign
languages" but you have said "the relation of the Anglophones with
execrable languages" witch suppose you think that other languages are
execrable... :-) it is not wrong sometime :-)
In good french your title should have been : "La pratique des langues
étrangères par les anglophones est exécrable", it is not simple and
it is not a very good french, this is better : "le peu d'intérêt des
anglophones pour la pratique des langues étrangères", we can see that
french is l o n g and not very simple... :-) :-) :-)
René from Paris
Le 26 juin 08 à 11:14, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :
Dear Rene, Viktorias, Klaus, et al,
There should be no need whatsoever to apologise about the state of
your English. Most native English speakers are notoriously bad at
other languages.
As a speaker of:
Scots,
really bad schoolboy French,
Scotticised English,
bucket Bulgarian,
and various bits and bobs of Hebrew and Arabic
I can honestly say that I speak from a position of authority in
this area!
Forbye on the RR list we should be endlessly impressed that the non-
native speakers take such very great pains to write their messages
in English at all.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
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