Comments on: The French And Their Love Of Annoying The English http://www.yellowswordfish.com/129/the-french-and-their-love-of-annoying-the-english/ Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:15:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jake http://www.yellowswordfish.com/129/the-french-and-their-love-of-annoying-the-english/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Jake Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:34:06 +0000 http://www.yellowswordfish.com/?p=129#comment-164 No, I think that is the correct spelling in French for 'English'... but it's... well, <i>in French</i>. No, I think that is the correct spelling in French for ‘English’… but it’s… well, in French.

]]> By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish http://www.yellowswordfish.com/129/the-french-and-their-love-of-annoying-the-english/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Andy @ Yellow Swordfish Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:52:36 +0000 http://www.yellowswordfish.com/?p=129#comment-162 Well - my capacity for foreign language is about on a par with my ability to grasp string theory but I must say that I thought the spelling didn't quite look right. So as, presumably, a Frenchman created the packaging, I figured I'd trust his grasp of his own language. And yes - I did know that English is widely spoken in South Africa and is considered one of their 'official' languages' but it would have been irrelevant really and would have spoilt the flow - so I took some harmless license. Well – my capacity for foreign language is about on a par with my ability to grasp string theory but I must say that I thought the spelling didn’t quite look right. So as, presumably, a Frenchman created the packaging, I figured I’d trust his grasp of his own language.

And yes – I did know that English is widely spoken in South Africa and is considered one of their ‘official’ languages’ but it would have been irrelevant really and would have spoilt the flow – so I took some harmless license.

]]> By: Jake http://www.yellowswordfish.com/129/the-french-and-their-love-of-annoying-the-english/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Jake Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:59:30 +0000 http://www.yellowswordfish.com/?p=129#comment-160 (Oh, and while I'm writing afterthoughts in parenthesis, there are plenty of places in the world where it's <i>legal</i> to play DVDs out-of-region; I'm pretty sure that the UK is one of them, in fact. Some countries consider region-locking an unfair trade block and it's actually illegal to sell region-lock-respecting hardware... IIRC Australia was famous for this. ...but now I'm just being pedantic. AGAIN!) (Oh, and while I’m writing afterthoughts in parenthesis, there are plenty of places in the world where it’s legal to play DVDs out-of-region; I’m pretty sure that the UK is one of them, in fact. Some countries consider region-locking an unfair trade block and it’s actually illegal to sell region-lock-respecting hardware… IIRC Australia was famous for this.

…but now I’m just being pedantic.

AGAIN!)

]]> By: Jake http://www.yellowswordfish.com/129/the-french-and-their-love-of-annoying-the-english/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Jake Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:47:52 +0000 http://www.yellowswordfish.com/?p=129#comment-159 Well, whoever designed the packaging obviously didn't bother to learn enough English to spell 'English' properly, which personally I find more insulting. I buy products made in the UK that have "Français" and "Deustch" and "Español" language options all the time... (Oh, and English is not only one of the 11 (!) official languages of South Africa but also increasingly the dominant one, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_africa#Languages" rel="nofollow">according to Wikipedia</a>. Certainly all the South Africans I've met have spoken it pretty well. ;-) Well, whoever designed the packaging obviously didn’t bother to learn enough English to spell ‘English’ properly, which personally I find more insulting. I buy products made in the UK that have “Français” and “Deustch” and “Español” language options all the time…

(Oh, and English is not only one of the 11 (!) official languages of South Africa but also increasingly the dominant one, according to Wikipedia. Certainly all the South Africans I’ve met have spoken it pretty well. ;-)

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