La pauvre famille
[English version below] Je connaissais une petite fille très riche. Un jour, son professeur lui a demandé de faire une rédaction sur une famille pauvre. La fille était étonnée: “Une famille pauvre?!...
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Sophistication is a French invention. The French are masters when it comes to nurturing, and more importantly, selling sophistication. Think of some expensive (and therefore classy) brands. Chances are...
View ArticleBelle Piece
Here is a French joke that is funny only in French. I present it here as a puzzle to my English-speaking readers. This colonel in the French army was in the restroom. As he was midway through the...
View ArticleLanguages
Before leaving India in the late eighties, I could speak a bit of Hindi as my third language. English was the second language, and Malayalam my mother tongue. I wasn’t fluent in Hindi by any stretch of...
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