Bob, the thing is, you have (at least) some logic and common sense and no badly placed pride like 'French is THE most beautiful language and rest is cram so we need to expurge the lenguage from all alien words'.
Or something alike... A pity. I like to laugh about all this but in the end, this isn't funny at all. And ridiculous. 2011/3/16 Bob W <[email protected]>: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Boris Liberman >> >> On 3/16/2011 9:52 AM, Thibouille wrote: >> > Yeah, the Académie Française is for that matter, really, a bunch of >> > old rats (and this is mean to real rats). >> > It is true that a language can't accept every word coming from >> outside >> > (english most of the time) but the way they deal with the issue is >> > laughable to say the least. >> > >> > Hamburger is not supposed to be used in french and its definition is: >> > "Bifteck haché et grillé, servi dans un petit pain rond et chaud." >> > >> > Easy to use isn't it? >> > ROTFL >> > >> >> Beefshteks is a Russian word. But then again we met, Thibs, and had our >> fun comparing French and broken French/Dutch/German/etc (a.k.a. >> Russian). >> > > I have a French cookbook by the great Dr. Pomiane which was originally > published in 1938. It includes a recipe for bitoks a la russe. Here is my > translation of the recipe, from "Les Recettes preferees de la mere Denis": > > "Mix 400g of minced beef with 50g of moistened bread crumbs. Add an egg > yolk, salt, pepper, aromatics. Knead. Form it into 8 patties and dredge them > through flour. Fry them in butter on each side for about 8 minutes in > total." > > So, if that's not a burger I don't know what is. The Academie should read > more cookbooks, then they could have used bitok. After all, isn't bifteck > derived from beef steak in any case? > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs ---------------------- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ KX, MX, SuperA+Motor, Z1, P30 Mamiya C330+80/2.8 Sekonic L-208 FalconEyes TE300D x2 Studio flashes Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
