Which is it?

[Wanderlust]

Arcadian,
I am beginning to wonder if you realised I was joking with my 'poseurs' comment?

[dtaai-maai]

...But seriously, if the French word is more appropriate why not use it, isn`t force majeure part of our legal jargon? To describe someone as a ponce because they know, and use the correct pronunciation is just inverted snobbery.

You may have a mild humour deficit, Arcadian, I don't know, but I've looked at my post again, and it's pretty clear I was kidding - you couldn't possibly pronounce any of those words and phrases other than as spoken in French. Well, you could, but you'd sound pretty daft! That was kind of the point...

Honestly, it's enough to make one resort to sarcasm!

[Arcadian]

No DM I definately don`t have a humour deficiency, quite the reverse, I have gone through my life not taking anything seriously, which is why I was not really suited to the corporate life, but it has meant a life free of stress and serious illness which some of my contemporaries have succumbed to. As for your joking or not joking it is very difficult to tell in plain text. So many of the posters seem to take themselves very seriously indeed, I am not one of them. Look forward to having a drink with you on my next visit, au revoir.

[JD]

Pardon Monsieure, do you have a lisonce for that minkey.

[Spitfire]

I forgot that everyone is a 'fer de lance' here. Ha ha ha.

[PeteC]

Honestly, it's enough to make one resort to sarcasm!

Or perhaps sarcasme, sarcasmos, sarkasmos, or sarkazein? Pete

[dtaai-maai]

Look forward to having a drink with you on my next visit, au revoir.

I happen to have a bottle of Ricard in stock...

[dtaai-maai]

Pardon Monsieure, do you have a lisonce for that minkey.

"I fart in your general direction..."

[dtaai-maai]

I know this is a bit off topic (such as it is! ) but I remembered this just now, as I originally came across the term in French a few months ago.

All you D-I-Y handymen will undoubtedly laugh at my ignorance, but I had never heard of...

an endless screw

"...endless screw screw fixed so that it cannot move longitudinally as it rotates. Thus, instead of the usual action in which a screw advances itself through a medium as it turns, the screw remains stationary and forces the medium or a mechanical part to advance."

[bluezephyr]

Pardon Monsieure, do you have a lisonce for that minkey.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d3DTsJhgpio

fast forward to about 2.30

[dtaai-maai]

fast forward to about 2.30

No, please don't! Watch it all!

Thank you BZ, I'd forgotten how funny it was. Totally unbroadcastable now, I suppose...

[Arcadian]

OK DM, my preferred digestif is 51, but Ricard will do, even better a pint of decent bitter