For a nation that's rather militant about protecting their language there's a lot of English there.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Sun 23 Apr 2017, 20:40,
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Yes. It's the London embassy but it still puzzled me.
I had to get my UK birth certificate translated and transcribed into an officially endorsed French version there. Had to wait over three hours for that utterly fatuous bureaucratic procedure despite arriving thirty minutes early for my appointment.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 23 Apr 2017, 20:52,
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LOL.
There's no English word for bureaucracy.
Isn't ther e a slang term about leather arses for yer classic crapaud desk jockey?
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sun 23 Apr 2017, 21:04,
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haha
I was at a dinner with Orange execs when they were demerging from France telecom and they were boasting about how they weren't civil servants and a new entrepreneurial (quel irony the French came up with *that* word) spirit was abroad. One of the other hacks said (nonchalantly although sans any visible shrugging) 'hands up who's an enerque?'
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sun 23 Apr 2017, 21:43,
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Alright grandad.
Tell us about the time you were at a dinner when Marconi was looking for investors in his novel telecommunications invention.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 23 Apr 2017, 22:02,
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laisse tomber
you've done that one.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sun 23 Apr 2017, 22:15,
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