# Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberte-egalite-fraternite/78679
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 29, 2001, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberte-egalite-fraternite/78679 "2001-08-29T10:49:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 5
### Author:  [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2001, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberte-egalite-fraternite/78679/81 "2001-08-30T14:25:48Z")
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> That said, why is it that French people have no sense of humor? Maybe Maeglin could explain this, seeing as he is doubly qualified as both a Francophile and some one with no sense of humor.
I would explain it by saying that you wouldn’t know humor if it blew you and spit you wad back in your face.
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### Author:  [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberte-egalite-fraternite/78679/82 "2001-08-30T14:57:13Z")
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> \*Originally posted by pennylane \*
> …but since you insist on correcting LoftStory’s English I would like to respectfully ask that you do the same for those native English speakers who make grammatical errors everywhere on this message board, such as incorrectly using the word “lay” as the present tense of the verb “lie”. E.g. “Just lay down and relax”, “I was laying in bed last night when it happened”, etc.
Oy. To do so would mark me as a pendantic, insufferable jerk, which is something I was _hoping_ to avoid in doing so here; here, at least, I can at least be offering assistance to someone not completely familiar to the language. To correct native English speaker’s grammar- quite frankly, it’s an invitation to be pissed upon, because there are plenty of people who throw a tantrum upon having their grammar, punctuation, or spelling remarked upon. It’s their own language, so what they do must _automatically_ be right, right?
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### Author:  [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberte-egalite-fraternite/78679/83 "2001-08-30T15:40:23Z")
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> \*Originally posted by LoftStory \*
> **DEMISE, je ne comprends rien sur ce forum, qu’est ce que c’est que cet “op”?? est-ce que tu peux m’expliquer tout a stp? 😛 (on fait comment pour faire appara”tre les petites smileys graphiques?)**
Shit, don’t ask me, I don’t speak French. I only wrote some bizarre crap and ran it through babelfish a few times, to imitate, in French, what your post looked like, in English. Since it didn’t even make sense in English when I wrote it, it definitely should not have lead you to think I actually could understand French. There’s no way that should make sense, it should have been almost totally random words.
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### Author:  [@LoftStory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoftStory)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberte-egalite-fraternite/78679/84 "2001-08-30T16:07:18Z")
Et toi, DETOP?
I am sorry Demise, I thought you are a student of french. Very charming name though…
I regret that I am going “en congŽs” (holiday) for eight days, but perhaps I will read this page in the mean time.
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### Author:  [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberte-egalite-fraternite/78679/85 "2001-08-30T16:12:24Z")
Va te faire foutre, and don’t let the porte bang you in the derriere on the way out.
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### Author:  [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberte-egalite-fraternite/78679/86 "2001-08-30T16:26:03Z")
Yeah, I think we are about finished here.
Consider posting more than just the same old trollish merde, Loft. Otherwise your term here will be rather short.
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