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France: Defeats fascists. NYT:

It’s far from the only dumb thing about this, but I can promise the NYT that a country on its fifth republic already has a passing familiarity with the word “ungovernable.”

I came here to say this. Do they really want us to think they're serious people, or is it just a bit?

The France where they have strikes that shut the whole place down on the regular…. ungovernable is kind of their thing

Someone could arrange a screening of WEEKEND for them…

what’s that famous de gaulle quote about trying to govern a country with hundreds of kinds of cheese

Not just five republics, BTW. They've had two monarchies, two empires, and three revolutions in between. And that's just the last 250 years.

Someone should write a long musical about it.

also, fun fact: france already has words

they get a little uptight about people thinking they don't have words, as I recall

Just like ... ffs nyt, please find a way to write about other countries that's a bit less patronizing

how could they have known www.collinsdictionary.com/us/sentences...

Example sentences with INGOUVERNABLE | Collins French Sentenceswww.collinsdictionary.com How to use INGOUVERNABLE in context | Collins French Sentences

And a bit less obvious that they're rooting for injuries

But they’re all in French

And half the letters aren’t pronounced, but c’est la vie

Do not get me started on hors d’oeuvres

😂

And we've stolen half of them for English, which means they Belong To America Now

Indeed

Also: the word "govern" only exists in English because the French put it there

Ungovernable words.

Yes but English is the lingua franca

The trouble with the French is that they have no word for mot juste.

Saying the *French* don't have a word for ungovernable is like George Bush saying they don't have a word for entrepreneurship.

What is the French word for babysitter weekend shampoo tennis Penalty kick Cheeseburger

IIRC one of the all time Bushisms was "the problem with the french is they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur' "

Perhaps the nation that demanded they be called 'Freedom Fries' lacks the brain power to judge anyone else....

when everybody knows it's "le businessman"

It was too good to be true, sadly. www.snopes.com/fact-check/f...

Bush and French Word For Entrepreneurwww.snopes.com Did George W. Bush say the problem with the French is they have no word for entrepreneur?

Is this a trick question and the answer for every one of these is royale?

[wins internet for the day]

(the French word for shampoo is shampoing 😬 other than that, touché!)

Don't they use "Gardienne" or "Fin de Semaine" in francophone communities outside of Québec?

A word for everything, even

Also also, not to put, ah, too fine an edge to this sort of thing, but France being temporarily ungovernable is not new. Which Republic are they on now?

"ingouvernable"? I cannot possibly understand this crazy language.

I’ve heard that rumor before.

since when

since before america

woah

US Allied Forces: Storm Normandy beaches to defeat Fascism NYT: Sure, but what about all the trash left behind?

I was looking for a WW2 reference. Thanks.

whoever is pulling strings at nyt is getting too bold, they need the shit scared out of them

I mean I suggested bomb scare last week

I keep making Baader Meinhof jokes but they're just too obscure.

mmmmmmmmm

let them get bold. the more obvious it is, the more subscribers they lose.

I don't think they care about the number of subscribers

We’ve seen the downfall coming but is it particularly obvious now? The last few headlines….

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