Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[Harry Genshaw]

One thing that's always puzzled me with the French language. When something new appears on the scene (Internet, micro chip technology etc) - who decides whether it's feminine or masculine? Do folk wander round using La & Le until general usage decides?

[Montreal Wanderer]

One thing that's always puzzled me with the French language. When something new appears on the scene (Internet, micro chip technology etc) - who decides whether it's feminine or masculine? Do folk wander round using La & Le until general usage decides?

How the word is spelled or how it sounds is a clue, but not infallible. These things are decided by the lexicographers who create the Dictionnaire de L'Académie francaise.. As you can tell an academy is feminine, though most members are male.

[Prufrock]

Yep Academie Francaise sit and have an apparently serious conversation deciding!

[TANGODANCER]

One thing that's always puzzled me with the French language. When something new appears on the scene (Internet, micro chip technology etc) - who decides whether it's feminine or masculine? Do folk wander round using La & Le until general usage decides?

Everybody thinks La radio in Spanish sounds odd because radio ends in "o" which is masculine, although everybody uses it. Reason is radio in Spanish is actually radiotelefonica, which is feminine. Just one of those little quirks. El agua is another, because la agua (correct) just sounds odd when pronounced.

[Montreal Wanderer]

One thing that's always puzzled me with the French language. When something new appears on the scene (Internet, micro chip technology etc) - who decides whether it's feminine or masculine? Do folk wander round using La & Le until general usage decides?

Everybody thinks La radio in Spanish sounds odd because radio ends in "o" which is masculine, although everybody uses it. Reason is radio in Spanish is actually radiotelefonica, which is feminine. Just one of those little quirks. El agua is another, because la agua (correct) just sounds odd when pronounced.

We have a hotel in Montreal called Le Reine Elizabeth (keep her away from Bruce ).

[Hoboh]

I know a girl called le reine

[bobo the clown]

One thing that's always puzzled me with the French language. When something new appears on the scene (Internet, micro chip technology etc) - who decides whether it's feminine or masculine? Do folk wander round using La & Le until general usage decides?

Everybody thinks La radio in Spanish sounds odd because radio ends in "o" which is masculine, although everybody uses it. Reason is radio in Spanish is actually radiotelefonica, which is feminine. Just one of those little quirks. El agua is another, because la agua (correct) just sounds odd when pronounced.

We have a hotel in Montreal called Le Reine Elizabeth (keep her away from Bruce ).

... & a bloke called Larry ?

[Annoyed Grunt]

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Hmmmmm....

[Worthy4England]

Hmmmmmm?

[Annoyed Grunt]

Hmmmmmm?

Remake of Robocop.....not a big fan of remakes....not sure about this one though....

[Worthy4England]

Hmmmmmm?

Remake of Robocop.....not a big fan of remakes....not sure about this one though....

Ahhh gotcha. Didn't realise it was a remake - thought it was a "2" so different story etc.

[Prufrock]

At what point did society collapse to the extent that we need adverts reminding people not to smuggle drugs?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

At what point did society collapse to the extent that we need adverts reminding people not to smuggle drugs?

September 4th AD476 was when it all went to pot.

[Worthy4England]

At what point did society collapse to the extent that we need adverts reminding people not to smuggle drugs?

September 4th AD476 was when it all went to pot.

Literally, I take it?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

At what point did society collapse to the extent that we need adverts reminding people not to smuggle drugs?

September 4th AD476 was when it all went to pot.

Literally, I take it?

I was thinking maybe nobody had got it. But yes that was the day when the heathen hordes not only overthrew the last Western Roman Emperor, but had a little toke of Cimmerian Black in celebration...

[Harry Genshaw]

At what point did society collapse to the extent that we need adverts reminding people not to smuggle drugs?

September 4th AD476 was when it all went to pot.

Literally, I take it?

I was thinking maybe nobody had got it. But yes that was the day when the heathen hordes not only overthrew the last Western Roman Emperor, but had a little toke of Cimmerian Black ink celebration...

You sound a bit too knowledgeable there Spotty

Do they make electronic doobies yet? Could be a gap in the market

[Prufrock]

At what point did society collapse to the extent that we need adverts reminding people not to smuggle drugs?

September 4th AD476 was when it all went to pot.

Presumably because there weren't radio adverts warning it not to do.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

At what point did society collapse to the extent that we need adverts reminding people not to smuggle drugs?

September 4th AD476 was when it all went to pot.

Literally, I take it?

I was thinking maybe nobody had got it. But yes that was the day when the heathen hordes not only overthrew the last Western Roman Emperor, but had a little toke of Cimmerian Black ink celebration...

You sound a bit too knowledgeable there Spotty

Do they make electronic doobies yet? Could be a gap in the market

Feck, I think you might be onto something there. Have you put in a patent yet?
I can see it now... E-by-gum-ganga the best electronic cannabis glycerol mist mixture 'straight' from Yorkshire.

[Montreal Wanderer]

At what point did society collapse to the extent that we need adverts reminding people not to smuggle drugs?

September 4th AD476 was when it all went to pot.

Literally, I take it?

I was thinking maybe nobody had got it. But yes that was the day when the heathen hordes not only overthrew the last Western Roman Emperor, but had a little toke of Cimmerian Black in celebration...

I don't know about the drugs but that Emperor (a usurper) was forced to abdicate by a general in the Roman army who support the legitimate Emperor who had been usurped. True the general, Odoacer, was a German, but so was most of the high command of the Roman army. He was also a Christian. So drugs maybe, heathen hordes no.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

He, Odoacer, might have been a Christian, but believe me, his hordes - Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Alans, Vandals, Franks, Burgundians, Scythians, Huns, Lombards and other associated wronguns, were, to a man, heathens...