# Talk show rumble!! Anybody speak French??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-show-rumble-anybody-speak-french/230850>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 24, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-show-rumble-anybody-speak-french/230850 "2004-02-24T07:01:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-show-rumble-anybody-speak-french/230850/1 "2004-02-24T07:01:06Z")

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There is a video of a huuuuuge talk show saloon fight [here](http://www.media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=talkshowrumble.wmv).  
We think it is in French and we are really curious about what they are saying. We want to know what the fight is about.  
Does anyone recognize what language that is in? What are they saying?

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-show-rumble-anybody-speak-french/230850/2 "2004-02-24T07:19:36Z")

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Not French. Not intelligible French, at any rate.

Italian or Portuguese, I’m fairly sure.

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-show-rumble-anybody-speak-french/230850/3 "2004-02-24T23:26:47Z")

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The logo in the upper right is THT, and there is a station with that logo, but it’s in Moscow. I don’t know Russian or any Slavic language, but that’s my bet. “H” in Russian is English “N”, and the station has a website (all in Russian, of course): [http://www.tnt-tv.ru/index.html](http://www.tnt-tv.ru/index.html)

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**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-show-rumble-anybody-speak-french/230850/4 "2004-02-25T02:23:24Z")

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Actually, it sounds rather like Russian to me. The vowel sounds, particularly. And the logo in the video is definitely that of the Russian tv station that **rowrrbazzle** mentioned. (See [http://www.tnt-tv.ru/images2/logo.jpg](http://www.tnt-tv.ru/images2/logo.jpg))

Maybe time for a change of title?

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**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-show-rumble-anybody-speak-french/230850/5 "2004-02-25T08:09:03Z")

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Ok, so anyone speak Russian? We are dying to know what started all this rumbling. Seriously, someone Liu Kang kicks this woman in a wedding dress! It is insane! People from the audience get into it! We don’t know what to make of it.

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**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-show-rumble-anybody-speak-french/230850/6 "2004-02-25T08:36:44Z")

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I don’t speak the lingo, but I have to say that this reminds me of WWF more than Jerry Springer… all those karate kicks, and the furniture being broken…

:dubious:

Grim

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-show-rumble-anybody-speak-french/230850/7 "2004-02-25T15:55:16Z")

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Since this is a question with a factual answer, I’ll move it to [\*\*General Questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=3)\*\* for you.

**Cajun Man**  
for the SDMB