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"There are similar expressions in France, but referring to England. The "French cream" (a sweet milky sauce for desserts like cakes) is called in French "crème je s in burkinabe jemerait corespondre avec toi t jesper ma reponse anglaise" (English cream). In the same way condoms used to be called "capotes anglaises" (English overcoats) and "to take a French leave" traduce as "filer à l'anglaise". "
The English are doing things in the wrong way from a French POV. For instance they have the very strange habit to use defeat to name their squares and stations (Waterloo, Trafalgar) while the French use victories names. ;-)
Another common definition of "French" refers to a tube circumference in millimeters, or sometimes defined as three times tube diameter in millimeters (as opposed to true circumference which is pi times diameter).
What is so awful about having links to other pages which have "French" as part of their titles? Why have they been removed (including their definitions, on which somebody worked rather hard I can imagine), and, more importantly, where else can one find them? (Certainly not in Wiktionary, I just had a look there.) As always, my questions are not meant rhetorically.
<K F> 00:34, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
Why is "Neal Greene" on the list? Am I missing something? It has survived multiple edits. Hoibes 21:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there a wikipedia article on French sayings prevalent in English, such as C'est la vie? Nagelfar 04:25, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Can someone provide a good justification for why pages like French, German, Romanian, etc., etc., go directly to disambiguation pages? It seems like it would be much better to direct them to the x_language article and put a tag on that saying "This article refers to blah blah, go here for the disambiguation page." I know that every single time I have ever gone to .../wiki/French or whatever, I am looking for French language, not something to link me to the France article or the band or anything. Palinurus june 22 2007 <math>Insert non-formatted text here</math>[[Media:[[Image:Example.ogg]] == [Headline text]'''''Italic text''''' == ]]
Please provide a list of the french term for each peculiar "French xxxx" term in English. - 69.87.204.97 —Preceding comment was added at 20:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
someone just deleted the whole thing and wrote that french people are french or something like that -_---~*Angelstar*~ 02:03, 14 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Angelstarstar ( talk • contribs)
why is Neal green in the list?? Am I missing something? Nothing has ever linked me to the French article 41.116.214.23 ( talk) 15:20, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
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"There are similar expressions in France, but referring to England. The "French cream" (a sweet milky sauce for desserts like cakes) is called in French "crème je s in burkinabe jemerait corespondre avec toi t jesper ma reponse anglaise" (English cream). In the same way condoms used to be called "capotes anglaises" (English overcoats) and "to take a French leave" traduce as "filer à l'anglaise". "
The English are doing things in the wrong way from a French POV. For instance they have the very strange habit to use defeat to name their squares and stations (Waterloo, Trafalgar) while the French use victories names. ;-)
Another common definition of "French" refers to a tube circumference in millimeters, or sometimes defined as three times tube diameter in millimeters (as opposed to true circumference which is pi times diameter).
What is so awful about having links to other pages which have "French" as part of their titles? Why have they been removed (including their definitions, on which somebody worked rather hard I can imagine), and, more importantly, where else can one find them? (Certainly not in Wiktionary, I just had a look there.) As always, my questions are not meant rhetorically.
<K F> 00:34, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
Why is "Neal Greene" on the list? Am I missing something? It has survived multiple edits. Hoibes 21:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there a wikipedia article on French sayings prevalent in English, such as C'est la vie? Nagelfar 04:25, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Can someone provide a good justification for why pages like French, German, Romanian, etc., etc., go directly to disambiguation pages? It seems like it would be much better to direct them to the x_language article and put a tag on that saying "This article refers to blah blah, go here for the disambiguation page." I know that every single time I have ever gone to .../wiki/French or whatever, I am looking for French language, not something to link me to the France article or the band or anything. Palinurus june 22 2007 <math>Insert non-formatted text here</math>[[Media:[[Image:Example.ogg]] == [Headline text]'''''Italic text''''' == ]]
Please provide a list of the french term for each peculiar "French xxxx" term in English. - 69.87.204.97 —Preceding comment was added at 20:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
someone just deleted the whole thing and wrote that french people are french or something like that -_---~*Angelstar*~ 02:03, 14 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Angelstarstar ( talk • contribs)
why is Neal green in the list?? Am I missing something? Nothing has ever linked me to the French article 41.116.214.23 ( talk) 15:20, 15 July 2023 (UTC)