Timeline for The meaning of "All that’s French for a liver pill."
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| Apr 9, 2021 at 1:45 | comment | added | Brad | @Michael Harvey Just because I am reporting on the use does not say I agree with it. Please do not shoot the messenger :) P.S. Not to keen on the politic (burnt sheep and the fishy stuff) and the fact they declined to join the commonwealth but I have no problem with the language. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 10:06 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @HenningKockerbeck - Not just English. On peut faire le dolce far niente. Maybe it is because I have been a Francophile for approaching 60 years that I perceive English weaknesses that French remedies. Of course it goes the other way. When I go to France there is sometimes a struggle to speak French because younger people want to try out their English, but older people are OK. A nice French lady in a train once thought I was maybe Swiss, which flattered me greatly. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 9:17 | comment | added | Henning Kockerbeck | @MichaelHarvey Languages are influencing each other all the time. I wouldn't take the fact that one language adopts loan words from another as a sign of inferiority. Just look at "le weekend", "le pull", "le parking", "lousse" (from "loose"), "contacter" (from "to contact") and so forth. I know many French are quite defensive of their language, but those quarrels about "keeping the language pure" always seem quite ridiculous to me. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 7:59 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @Brad - what a way to describe la langue de Voltaire, which is arguably more elegant, precise, and expressive than English. Look at all the things English can't say and and has to borrow. Carte blanche, tout le monde au balcon, jeunesse dorée, épater les bourgeois, etc etc. | |
| Apr 4, 2021 at 12:58 | comment | added | Brad | As you correctly state the phrase "pardon my French" or "excuse my French" is used or was used when you say something uncouth or worse. | |
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| Apr 4, 2021 at 9:45 | history | answered | Henning Kockerbeck | CC BY-SA 4.0 |