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Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel's avatar

This is why many people pronounce Target as tarzhay.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Alternatively, "le K mart"

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Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel's avatar

And Jacque C Penney

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Oh man, never heard that one! How about Ye Olde Navy?

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Daniel Nest's avatar

This le article was quite, how shall I say....magnifique!

As we say in Portugal, una piccola pizza, por favor. Dankeshon.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I'm listening to samba music right now, in case anyone's un peu curious.

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j.e. moyer, LPC's avatar

Do you have any Grey Poupon?

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Andrew Smith's avatar

So fancy!

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Le Bag and Members Only epaulets

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I never knew about Le Bag, but oh boy those pretentious jackets! Feynman has a way of calling anything that's unnecessarily fancy "epaulets", FWIW. I think that's gold, and internalized it decades ago myself.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Le Bag had dry-cleaner like machines in the windows of their big mall stores with and endless parade of bags gliding by. The machines were cool.

I couldn't remember this one yesterday, but I heard it in my dreams: Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?

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Andrew Smith's avatar

That is a very fancy way to ask someone to make the beast with one or two backs.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

The Normans spelt "beef" as "boeuf". You can still find that spelling for meals of that kind in fancier restaurants.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Oh yeah! From the original French, right?

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Yes. The English just modified the spelling.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

In spite of how much I rail against the way I learned French in middle and high school, I'm incredibly glad I at least learned some.

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