>>Can't stand Poirot, or any show where the hero is a francophone, but speaks perfectly good English, all except the words "Mister" and doesn't know the English for "n'est-ce pas"
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>Bzzzt! Thanks for playing. Poirot was Belgian.
Who said he was French. Like EVERYONE knows that! If you look at my reply, I say "francophone"
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>>"You were out late last night, Monsieur Johnson, n'est-ce pas?" :-)
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>My old French teacher used to tell us you could safely use n'est-ce pas after questions, so I used to come into class and say to her things like, "Comment allez-vous, n'est-ce pas?"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
