{OT} You Know You're Getting Old ...

Le Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:13:42 +0100, Simon Atkinson <> a écrit :

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Oui, mais quand un homme s'ennuie en attendant la rentrée, il n'y a pas
grand chose à faire ... :-(

 

You ****, you were there !!

 

Desmond Coughlan said:

Je pense que monsieur a besoin de Viagra pour réduire l'attente.

 

They'd say something polite, then later ask "who's the old ****?"

 

You are old, you thick twat.

 

*quality* post formatting there.

 

Le Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:06:58 +0200, Cab <> a écrit :

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'mec' means 'mate' ?

Blimey ... you live 'n' learn .........................

 

Le 12 Sep 2003 10:23:07 GMT, William Grainger <> a écrit :

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I made the mistake of using TAB instead of 'SPACE' ...

 

Exactly, as it's not part of the National Curriculum for primary
schools. They can offer a language if they have the capability, but
they don't have to. I wonder if Des learnt French at primary?
..

Yebbut, things like "hello" and numbers and stuff are done to death in
'lower' sets because you *might* actually get to use them in real life
(as opposed to, say, describing your school uniform or saying what
your ideal job would be).

'Policy'? 'Common practice' more like. The argument is, if you're crap
at your first foreign language, then you'll probably be crap at all of
them, so why waste everyone's time? Of course it doesn't work like
that - you might actually be crap at one, and pick a different one up
much more easily (say, because French is nothing like English at a
basic level: bread=pain, water=eau, school=ecole, whereas basic German
vocab -bread=Brot, water=Wasser, school=Schule, etc - is much more
recognizable). Or you might just have had a crap teacher. Or your
transition from primary might have meant you were behind others in
your year at that time, and then you never quite get to catch up.

I believe (though I could be wrong) that some schools deliberately get
kids who are struggling at the first language to scrap it for a bit
and start a second.

 

Heh. *Nice*

 

N'importe quoi.

 

Le Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:13:06 +0100, Power Grainger <> a écrit :

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At the age of primary, yes, but not in the school itself. It wasn't taught
at that time. I started to learn it here in France, first on family
holidays, and second as there was a family member, uh ... 'involved' with a
French person, so I spent a fair bit of time here (cf. Angers, Nanets).

 

Just Des' normal attention seeking, I think.

Me too. But then we're (relatively) normal, well adjusted people who
don't go round looking for imaginary personal insults.

**** it. I've deleted three replies already, so I won't bother.
Suffice to say you're going straight back in the kf.

In your case you seem to do neither...