[Glice]

Je suis Anglais. Il n'y a pas un cause pour moi a 'conjuge' pas. Tout le monde parle ma langue.

[Glice]

I reckon any actual French speakers are probably recoiling in the face of the terrors I'm committing here.

[the ikara cult]

the problem with the French is they dont have a word for entrepreneur

[wellcharge]

Originally Posted by Glice

I reckon any actual French speakers are probably recoiling in the face of the terrors I'm committing here.

i've almost completely forgotten french but i can tell our little chat was painful, so syrfox i'm seriously sorry

[stu666]

don't ask me i don't know what colloquial means

[SYRFox]

Originally Posted by wellcharge

i've almost completely forgotten french but i can tell our little chat was painful, so syrfox i'm seriously sorry

ahah no problem. french must be an awful language to learn... so many conjugations and stuff

[wellcharge]

Originally Posted by SYRFox

ahah no problem. french must be an awful language to learn... so many conjugations and stuff

the first year at french school we did nothing but conjugate and read the bescherelle. we had this old swiss teacher that taught us with puppets. and all our classes were in french except english class, and we didn't know french so we didn't learn a damn thing during social studies,science etc. lol

[_slavo_]

Originally Posted by SYRFox

ahah no problem. french must be an awful language to learn... so many conjugations and stuff

try learning slovakian and your brain will melt.

[wellcharge]

Originally Posted by _slavo_

try learning slovakian and your brain will melt.

ahh,so that's what happened to you guys, i didn't know the language was responsible

[SYRFox]

Všetci ľudia sa rodia slobodní a sebe rovní , čo sa týka ich dôstojnosti a práv.
Sú obdarení rozumom a majú navzájom jednať v bratskom duchu.

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by SYRFox

Všetci ľudia sa rodia slobodní a sebe rovní , čo sa týka ich dôstojnosti a práv.
Sú obdarení rozumom a majú navzájom jednať v bratskom duchu.

Je to fakt?

[SYRFox]

Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple

Je to fakt?

I FUCK YOU TOO

[infinitemusic]

Originally Posted by Glice

I wouldn't say 'pun intended' was colloquial - it is, however, massively hackneyed and seems patronising. Either the irony is apparent or it needs re-writing, there's no need to obviate bad writing.

I don't even think that's the purpose of "pun intended," at least not anymore. It now serves as more of a way to point out how clever you are, even though it always achieves the opposite. Either way I agree that it's hackneyed and I cringe every time I read it.

[pbradley]

Being clever is a sin.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by Glice

I wouldn't say it was colloquial; I'd say it was preferable over boring.'Dull' exists in the realm of metaphor - as in 'this knife is dull', extended to whatever your object is; 'boring' implies subjective dislike, which is far less 'proper' to formal writing.

agreed.