--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2006, at 3:49 PM, bob_brigante wrote: > > > > Bobby told me that the altered version of the Post article was > > created to be read out to people in other countries, including in > > Asia and Africa, where it was felt that the names of some of our > > local shops, the French name of a meal at Le Petit Paris, etc. > > would not have been particularly meaningful and so were dropped > > from the text. > > Yeah, those people in Asia and Africa are so clueless they > might get confused with the actual facts.
< snotty French person mode ON > Especially Vietnam and Thailand and those numerous countries in Africa that were once French colonies, and one of whose native languages is still French. I somehow suspect that most residents of Ivory Coast would have less trouble identifying the offending foodstuffs than Bobby did. < snotty French person mode OFF > :-)
