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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Come and get your Tabs, 1918 style. Your hed gif today comes courtesy the National Archives. The researching here took me down some fascinating paths. I hope you'll click through and read about it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/horsing-around-french-schoolin-in

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Raccoon of Vengeance's avatar

Such fun. I have a book of French cartoons of children during the war. I don't read French.

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Miss Grundy's avatar

You mean some of the people who very politely asked TFG for their files back??!!

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Those kids were so smart back then! They could speak and write in French!

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Mon cheval est plus intelligent que ton cheval car il lit tous les onglets

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Wondering Woman's avatar

Appreciate the familiar “ton”

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

I figured since we were all schoolkids in the same classroom, it was the appropriate designation ;-)

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Tastier too!

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Mr Canoehead/M Tête-Canoë's avatar

I don't know about the official Academie word for walkman, but in Quebec French it was, if memory serves, le balladeur.

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Mr Canoehead/M Tête-Canoë's avatar

You'd rather have a tiny French luthier than a ten inch pianist?

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

In this particular case, I believe the word comes from the quick-find indentation one would have in a book, like a dictionary for example. Makes perfect sense to me, since that's approximately what a browser tab is like too. I don't know if the the French Language Academy was involved in this one at all. But maybe. In any event, I think this was less about making things not English-like and more about a logical connection to other terms already in use in the French language.

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Charles  Schlotter's avatar

Oddly enough, the French for "the walkie-talkie " is "le talkie-walkie."

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Wait until you hear about German.... 😉

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V4Virginia's avatar

Splendid job!

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

I hear that is called "going down a rabbit hole."

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

I did indeed use that very phrase in my post :-)

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Jim Sanders's avatar

For them I support the justice the Pythians did on Crassus by forcing molten gold down his throat. Also, we can put them on their yachts without food or fuel, tow them to the middle of the ocean and let have a slow death while surrounded by their possessions.

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William Donnell's avatar

Teacher's pet aincha, what with your newfangled "buks" and whatnot?

I had to lug around Rick Steves in my rucksack, and he wouldn't SHUT THE FUCK UP.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

So republicans aren’t even pretending they just want the states to decide about abortion any more. They just want to prevent women from accessing it by any means necessary.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Pickle pizza?

Dear god, someone finally found an abomination worse than Hawaiian pizza!

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Notreelyhelping's avatar

I’d, uh, just like to, ah, t-take a moment to, uh, say happy. Birthday, that is. To Bob. Newhart.

B-o-b N-e-w-h-a-r-t. Comedian.

On his birthday. Which is today. He’s—oh, my God—I mean he’s 94. Wow. Uh, uh…GREAT!

Well, thanks. Bob. Y-you’re a funny guy. You’ve made me laugh. At least…twice. Okay, more than that. Four times. So thanks for the four laughs.

Fucking genius.

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BlueSpot's avatar

Bob Newhart on Line 1, of course.

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Notreelyhelping's avatar

H-hello?

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Nicholas Harpole's avatar

SAR : I generally love you and your work, but I wouldn’t admit to eating whale meat if I were you, any more than I would to eating chimpanzee meat.

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Khavrinen's avatar

"Businesses are desperately trying to force workers back into the office. That stale coffee won’t drink itself."

Thus proving that management is much more concerned with the opportunity to be a micro-managing asshole than with the possibility of saving millions of dollars by leasing more appropriately sized office spaces.

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BECKY's avatar

The president of my company would like everyone in the office every day but most people are in a couple of days/week if they're close to an office. However we had a meeting in our corporate office for a small-ish group of people the week before last and 11 people came down with covid. I wonder if that will change his mind?

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Chris Paine's avatar

>>What Santa Won’t Tell You: Reindeer Meat Is Delicious!<<

Yelena Belova: "It's not a pleasure. It's tough, it's chewy. You have to braise it for a really long time."

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Mary Ann's avatar

I was in Bergen in May and ate fish and chips. I was horrified at whale on the menu, but I am a mostly veggie whale hugger type.

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BlueSpot's avatar

Ba-lu-ga?

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DLZbub's avatar

I've had alligator. It's good. I don't like spicy food, or bad smelling foods, but I'm a fairly adventurous eater. I like crayfish, octopus, duck, pheasant, frog, squid, etc. I also enjoy a strong tasting fish, like orange roughy, salmon, halibut, and swordfish. I haven't had snails yet.

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Jim Sanders's avatar

Has everyone or anyone heard of the reports of spacecraft all over the world taking people to visit another planet for one million dollars per person?

Those who can afford to pay are being sent a gilded brochure titled ON SERVING THE ELITE

I quickly snuck on and off one of these spacecraft and stole a book with the same title.

Turns out it is a cook book

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Khavrinen's avatar

Have you considered sending Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos a few copies of that brochure?

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Jim Sanders's avatar

See above.

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3FingerPete's avatar

Also, Ken Paxton's impeachment trial is currently underway. Watch it live here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_hZGqhm6Ns

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(((What Fresh Hell Is This)))'s avatar

76 is no age at all. Bill Richardson, may his memory be a blessing.

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calliecallie, aka pollyanna's avatar

Ah, Nirvana. Here's my best evil stepmother story. Mr. cc and I had been married less than a year when his oldest daughter (the crazy one) came to live with us full time (she inherited her crazy from her mom). She was 12, a lovely age for girls, haha. It was barely a year after that when she asked if she and a friend could go see Nirvana in Battle Creek (an hour away) with some older boys who'd offered them a ride. Fuck no. Mr. cc and I both agreed on that. My famous words were "You'll have plenty of other chances to see Nirvana."

Later that same year, Kurt Cobain died.

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Alpaca22's avatar

hubby and friend saw them before they hit the big time. They and Pearl Jam were playing the pubs in the UK. A couple of years later they hit the big time in the US

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