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briantrumpet
Senior Member
Haha, I've got a timeout on the mothership till tomorrow. Can't even read why I've been banned, but if it's for French words/phrases that are in the Oxford English Dictionary, they are going to get a PM from me pointing out the error of their ways. Next they'll be banning Loon for his accent.
Stevo 666
Well-Known Member
Definitely PM them and tell them that they're a bunch of thick, uneducated plebs who don't appreciate your sophisticated wit and use of continental phrases to emphasise your intellectual superiority. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? 🙂
briantrumpet
Senior Member
It was for 'French' - I got an email from the mod who pressed the button. Genuinely interested in which was the trigger word for this specific one, as I've deliberately been using ones frequently used in English (and probably in the OED). It would actually be very funny if it was for 'connaisseur' rather than the 'anglicised' version 'connoisseur', which actually isn't anglicised at all, but a fossil of older French.
If it was for a cheery 'bonjour', well...
C R
Guru
briantrumpet
Senior Member
Quite. I fully appreciate that this is a forum in English, but if they are going to hand out time-outs for single 'foreign' words words that have crept into English, then it's rather silly. OK, I suppose I ought to admit I am dropping in bon mots now and then to test the water, but I'm hardly speaking in code. From schadenfreude to igloo, from cordon bleu to tapas, English just steals words and phrases from around the world, if they do the job.
And yes, 'cordon bleu' is in the OED too.
C R
Guru
Specially when egregious breaking of rules such as mentioning messages from the personal area in the public areas, is ignored.
briantrumpet
Senior Member
I'm sure I'm being annoying, but annoying in the way that schoolboys were in a (rather 'tough') Exeter secondary school several years ago: they were told they must wear long trousers, and not shorts (tailored, in school grey) in even the hottest weather. So they wore skirts instead, because they knew that the rule was discriminatory. They won, and got to wear shorts.
icowden
Squire
@briantrumpet You could be sneaky..
Last weekend I had difficulty parking when I went shopping but after meeting a friend and sending a few e-mails I went to the pub for a glass of champagne. I was wearing my favourite jeans and a t-shirt - I was hardly going to wear a tuxedo after all, and it was happy hour.
Yep, I think I've got at least 11 words from the French language in there, untranslated!
Last weekend I had difficulty parking when I went shopping but after meeting a friend and sending a few e-mails I went to the pub for a glass of champagne. I was wearing my favourite jeans and a t-shirt - I was hardly going to wear a tuxedo after all, and it was happy hour.
Yep, I think I've got at least 11 words from the French language in there, untranslated!
Last weekend I had difficulty parking when I went shopping but after meeting a friend and sending a few e-mails I went to the pub for a glass of champagne. I was wearing my favourite jeans and a t-shirt - I was hardly going to wear a tuxedo after all, and it was happy hour.
Rusty Nails
Country Member
There's a problem with my laptop; I think it keeps logging me into Private Eye's Pseuds Corner by mistake.
briantrumpet
Senior Member
Perhaps a bit of dialogue from Allo Allo would be acceptable... oh no, that's *all* French.
Rusty Nails
Country Member
I'll have you know I'm fluid in Fransay with my 'O' level in French in 1964.
And I am long pissed watching Allo Allo.
matticus
Guru
Do you think this is a fight worth dying over? Do you think the other boys are going to join you in your Skirt Wearing Protest?
Unless both answers are "Yes!!", I'd say you've gotten what you deserved.
matticus
Guru
I see what you've done there ..
briantrumpet
Senior Member
Nah, not worth dying over, but I'm genuinely intrigued by what they think the 'English language' is. It seems a bizarre policy when they are pulling me up for single words & phrases that appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, just coz they sound foreign. It would be different if I were actually writing in French.