what are your favorite french words and phrases that have bizarrely persisted well past french being a global language of diplomacy and politics cordon sanitaire special rapporteur chargé d'affaires what else
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Replying to @Patrick_Wyman
hahaha it doesn't even read to me as french anymore
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Replying to @MattZeitlin @Patrick_Wyman
I remember a Republican once arguing that socialism had so destroyed the spirit of enterprise in Europe that the French don't even have a word for entrepreneur.
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Replying to @JamesSharpsteen @davidceisen and
That Snopes "False" is rather too definitive. Blair's PR flak denied the story *at the time*?
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Replying to @johnlk_80 @davidceisen and
A third hand story shared at the height of liberal chain emails about Bush's IQ is not great evidence in its favor
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Replying to @JamesSharpsteen @davidceisen and
I'm certainly not saying they should call it "true."
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I'm pretty sure the story is not true about Bush. As I said, an earlier version existed in the 1980s. It's not uncommon for storytellers to take an older tale & apply it to someone in the news.
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