French Language Gifts

"Ou est le feu?"

"In my downtime I'm using this app to learn Corporate speak, Legalese, and French."

'Of course he's smiling. In your best high school French, you just ordered Champagne for the entire hotel.'

Trail Lawyers For The Pretentious - "J'accuse!", "Mais Non!"

How to speak French, lesson 1: 'This baguette makes me vomit' - 'Je dois vomier de cette baguette.'

"Nous somme desir-eh, go, er, allez, erm, universitaire français, s'il vous plait."

Somewhere in France: The visitors are stunned by a series of trilled R's.

Apples (Les Pommes)

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

The Vineyard

Campaign for Plain English

"You haven't got dyslexia- the instructions are in polish."

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

Thru versus Through Traffic

"Couldn't you have just laughed instead of spelling 'LOL' in your alphabet soup?"

Clown teaches how to speak Jibberish

'I can't force jocose if I'm not feeling it.'

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

"The good news is that we do have a little wiggle room."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Backfire

Punctuation Police

Assault 'n' Vinegar

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

A Copy Editor and His Dog

What's normal?

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Lesser known greek gods,

"If Google Translate is correct, they want our women and our cattle."

'The Questioner'