11-16-2010, 12:33 PM
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Life's a beach & then you dive
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Lili Town
Posts: 870
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Why English is a dirty language!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais
Perhaps the oldest example of Frenglish in English literature is found in Henry V by William Shakespeare. A French princess is trying to learn English, but unfortunately, "foot" as pronounced by her maid sounds too much like foutre (vulgar French, "semen" or "to have sexual intercourse" when used as a verb) and "gown" like con (French "cunt", also used to mean "idiot"). She decides English is too obscene a language.
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