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Fil Ouvert

by Tim F|  August 31, 20095:12 am| 20 Comments

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 31, 2009 at 5:45 am

    C’est un titre grand!

  2. 2.

    vivelame

    August 31, 2009 at 5:53 am

    J’espère que le séjour en notre belle contrée fut agréable.. :)

  3. 3.

    Xenos

    August 31, 2009 at 6:36 am

    Nous nous demanegerons a une pays francophone en l’ete prochain.

    Je suis in big trouble… Je besoin d’apprendre la langue entierment nouveau. Comment peut-on faire les beaux accents dans les mots?

  4. 4.

    Xenos

    August 31, 2009 at 6:38 am

    oops… J’ai besoin… On besoin un bouton de edit!

  5. 5.

    cosanostradamus

    August 31, 2009 at 6:41 am

    .
    Ahem.

    OK, too much vin ordinaire hier soir? Got you covered: “Bass Ackwards Headlines.” En Anglais.

    De rien.
    .

  6. 6.

    henqiguai

    August 31, 2009 at 7:10 am

    Great. Where was all this “noise” when I was actually studying French, back in high school ?

    Oh, yeah. The intratubes, they hadn’t yet been invented. D*mn you Al Gore !!!

  7. 7.

    gnomedad

    August 31, 2009 at 7:39 am

    Hey! Talk Amurkin!

  8. 8.

    SGEW

    August 31, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Parlez.

    Non!

  9. 9.

    Morbo

    August 31, 2009 at 8:20 am

    @Xenos: Regardez ici. Tournez les trois cadrans vers la gauche et tournez le cadran droit à 100 ou 200. Utilisez le bouton “Alt” avec le number pad et les nombres dans la table pour faire les accents.

    Pour “à” j’ai utilisé “Alt+0224”
    Pour “é” j’ai utilisé “Alt+0233”
    Etc.

  10. 10.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    August 31, 2009 at 8:23 am

    Okay this is extremely weird.

    Usually I log in to Balloon Juice from France, and it’s in English. Now I come back to the States for a week, and Balloon Juice is in French.

    You’re just trying to mess with my head, I know it.

  11. 11.

    burnspbesq

    August 31, 2009 at 8:32 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    “You’re just trying to mess with my head, I know it.”

    C’est vrai.

  12. 12.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    August 31, 2009 at 8:38 am

    @burnspbesq: And now, there’s another open thread just opened despite this one having only nine comments and being opened two hours ago.

    It’s all crazy I tells ya, crazy.

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 31, 2009 at 8:52 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim 8:38 am

    I’m afraid that might be partly my fault. I got in the first comment on that second thread (this one too, but who’s counting?) and sort of hijacked it immediately.

    But sooner or later, all threads become open threads, all conversations go off on tangents, and the “O/T” disclaimer becomes nothing more than a conventional nicety.

    ‘Swhy I keep coming here.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 31, 2009 at 8:59 am

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Oh, sorry. Bill E Pilgrim was talking about an actual Open Thread. I hadn’t seen it when I posted and thought he was talking about the France Update thread which so quickly became Open. Apologies for making it All About Me.

  15. 15.

    Comrade Mary

    August 31, 2009 at 9:38 am

    Chus bien tanné, moé. Hostie!

  16. 16.

    Colette

    August 31, 2009 at 11:03 am

    Quand tu n’as rien à dire, dis-le ici!

  17. 17.

    serge

    August 31, 2009 at 11:05 am

    Pas aujourd’hui…tiens. C’est deja un mauvais lundi.

  18. 18.

    asiangrrlMN

    August 31, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Non. Je ne parles pas. Merde.

  19. 19.

    Michael57

    August 31, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    Oops, I thought you said “par-TAY!” My bad.

  20. 20.

    EthylEster

    August 31, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    C’est une très belle langue que j’aime beaucoup.

    (will the orthography work?)

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