You really should have gone with “la langue de Britney Spears” – that’s a good one! Or better yet, “la langue de Flava Flav” or “la langue de Lou Reed”. I understand you’re trying to mix it up a bit, and I appreciate the variety. The phrase just struck me as funny, especially since so many of Clapton’s songs are based on the ‘American’ of bluesmen from the deep south.

Yonder, indeed.

“Where’s he at?”
“Over yonder.”

I confess, I love Redneck English. It’s a whole other language. :)

In French we call English “la langue de Shakespeare”, I find it a little bit restrictive as several others English gentlemen are well known on the side of the Chanel, so when I have to say “English” , I usuallly use this expression (because I like it) but with various names. I can do worse, (I can always do worse) I could have said “la langue de Britney Spears” but I’m old, and a definitive Eric Clapton addict.

I would love to know the translation of “désopinante”. Attempting to get a translation from several sites yielded no results….

Well that’s rather normal, the right word is desopilante

Cheers

Luc

Old words, well, they’ll always be around, even if people stop using them. But what everyone forgets is that language evolves at a very rapid rate, and that evolution is something that carries no judgement. A language only reflects the needs of its users.

I think this committee is a leftover from France’s academy way of thinking. Of course when the country was more culturally isolated, its population more hegemonic and its institutions more influential, this made sense. But not now.

But at the same I wouldn’t want them to stop wearing their sashes.

I think we should have something similar.