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Benoit
| I am sorry the guys if my expressions did upset you but last night I
had some wine to much maybe.
| In France most every joke is about butts and genitals and I try always
to ask my English colleague
| for advice on how to say stuff without making offense in English. Like
we say merde every day
| hundred times but to say that in English my friend tell me is not OK.
Upset us? Non non non (as M. Chirac used to say to Mme. Thatcher).
I was just fascinated by the expression which was new to me. A lot of
things sound really odd when translated literally and I wondered what
the original French was. We all swear too, except in front of the
children.
|
| So maybe my handbrake is not done right? I can tell you that if I
forget it then it does not slow
| down the truck. So now I only use it when I want to be reely sure the
truck will not go slip. Oh
| yes my rusted cable is renewed and rusting hydraulique line also.
I don't know. Mine will stop the truck ... eventually, and will also
hold it on a hill. But I would never trust only the handbrake on any
car, I would always leave it in gear. On a really steep hill I'd put it
in low range too (mine is a manual).
CB
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| I am sorry the guys if my expressions did upset you but last night I
had some wine to much maybe.
| In France most every joke is about butts and genitals and I try always
to ask my English colleague
| for advice on how to say stuff without making offense in English. Like
we say merde every day
| hundred times but to say that in English my friend tell me is not OK.
Upset us? Non non non (as M. Chirac used to say to Mme. Thatcher).
I was just fascinated by the expression which was new to me. A lot of
things sound really odd when translated literally and I wondered what
the original French was. We all swear too, except in front of the
children.
|
| So maybe my handbrake is not done right? I can tell you that if I
forget it then it does not slow
| down the truck. So now I only use it when I want to be reely sure the
truck will not go slip. Oh
| yes my rusted cable is renewed and rusting hydraulique line also.
I don't know. Mine will stop the truck ... eventually, and will also
hold it on a hill. But I would never trust only the handbrake on any
car, I would always leave it in gear. On a really steep hill I'd put it
in low range too (mine is a manual).
CB
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