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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Gonna go on Countdown with the line “Dictionaries aren’t rule books, they’re record books” and fight Susie Dent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Académie Française: <<Ahem -- pardon et moi?>>

[–] merc 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You mean <<pardonnez moi?>>

"pardon et moi" means "pardon and me". "pardonnez moi" means "pardon me" (in a polite / respectful tense).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It still works, it can mean: sorry but how do I exist if it isn't a rulebook?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

LOL you got me -- I flunked French . (Please don't tell le Académie!) 😄

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Delightfully failing to be either but with a huge sense of superiority and disdain for the youth and migrants.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Try it, she'll fuck you up with a bike chain (her weapon of choice in pub fights)