typing malfunctions

[trendylfj]

I just love this one on EPC site after this week's games.

Racing 92 now lead the Top 14 by a point from ASM Clermont Auvergne after 17 matches and have a two pint advantage, with a game in hand, on their European Rugby Champions Cup quarter-final rivals RC Toulon.

Who said the French couldn't drink??????

Any more????

[ellis9]

Yes. Your title of typing malfunctions should be Typing malfunctions.

[DCat]

If you were to include spoken malfunctions as well, then Brian Moore during the Scotland-France game yesterday had a good 'un. Question - "What's the French for Handbags?". Answer - "Main sac". (Say it to yourself in French, that helps!):smt003

[Donny]

Any more????

I would have thought there were more than enough on this forum to keep you busy for a fair while.

If you were to include spoken malfunctions as well, then Brian Moore during the Scotland-France game yesterday had a good 'un. Question - "What's the French for Handbags?". Answer - "Main sac". (Say it to yourself in French, that helps!):smt003

He wasn't that far out. The term for handbag is 'sac à main.'

[strawclearer]

Yes but the French don't have a word for entrepreneur!

[Noddy555]

Agree with Donny, I'm Fluent in French and the correct term for handbags
in the plural is sacs a main, and without the second s in the singular.
Perhaps when commenting on things French posters should be made to write it in French?

[LE18]

Noddy, Donny just said that 2 posts above you and he's probably more fluent than you as he has an accent above his a, probably grave but I'm not sticking my neck out!

[Donny]

... probably grave but I'm not sticking my neck out! smt002

It is a grave accent. Well spotted.

[strawclearer]

... probably grave but I'm not sticking my neck out! smt002

It is a grave accent. Well spotted.

Frappe Frappe

Qui est la?

Losti

Losti qui?

Yes, that is why I am knocking.

Je vais chercher mon manteau!

[tigercaspian]

Garcon Francais !

Sorry, sorry, wrong thread......

[Noddy555]

For LE18 I'm probably more fluent in French than most of Tigers supporters as not only have I been speaking the Language since I was 10 which is almost 60 years ago but I have qualifications in the French Language & Literature and still correspond with a pen friend in Limoges since both I and she were 13 years old. Plus the fact that in the late 60's I worked for 10 months in Paris. Missing out an accent on a machine
that doesn't cater for either acute or grave accents is meaningless.
Please if you are going to post silly comments check your facts first.

[Iain]

Please if you are going to post silly comments check your facts first.

Beautiful, delicious irony.

[Donny]

Missing out an accent on a machine that doesn't cater for either acute or grave accents is meaningless.

Ever thought of using the character map?

[WhitecapTiger]

Missing out an accent on a machine that doesn't cater for either acute or grave accents is meaningless.

Ever thought of using the character map?

à á ä â

Noddy, all the above were completed on my 'machine' by holding down the 'a' key (in this instance) until accents were available to select.

Hope that works.

Mangetout.

[Grimlish]

I love, love, love the way this thread totally misses the humour in Moore's comment, a 'double entendre' if ever I heard one...

hint: if you have a main sac, look inside and consider if that's what you've been talking.