Here's the contest: Help Jack insult, obfuscate, and lie in the beautiful bureaucratese of the French language. Come up with something simple that Jack wants to say. Then render it as the French bureaucratese juste. In our example Jack wants to tell snotty unimportant nations to shut up: [Donc, je crois qu’ils ont manqué] une bonne occasion de se taire.
Don't know a lick of French? Not a problem. Babel Fish and other mechanical translators are probably perfect for rendering the genuine-sounding thud of French bureaucratese.
Pave has enpanelled an august clutch of native-speaking "wise folk", who will assess the inutility, impenetrability, and utter soulessness of your submission. We will let the contest run for a week and then publish an update announcing five winners.
No expense has been spared in assembling prizes, because no expense has been expended. Pave will submit author names of the winning submissions to PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin for appropriate French honors, with a request that the top winner be inducted into the hallowed Académie française. We leave it to M. Raffarin to do the right thing and contact Pave's winners and show the appropriate appreciations.
Au moins cette fois nous avons essayé
Les précipitations inprudent to déclarer l'organe Hezbellah the terrorist sans consentement of l'ONU, would be action provative which destablize might le statu quo in regard to le Libanon.
Sorry, my comment could not get through the filter. I guess we are allowed to swear all we want in English, but talk about a whore in French (Jack knows who I am talking about) is not allowed.
I really was hoping for some good entertainment out of this one Damian, but honestly, I was skeptical that it would get much of a response. I don't think that the Anglo mind is up to the task.
The reason that pronouncements from the likes of French beaurocrats are so stunning is precisely that their arrival at the position in question boggles the mind in the first place. We just can't think that way. We have no earthly idea what goes on in their heads, making it impossible to predict; we can only analyze the wreckage after the fact.
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Chirac: "Vous voyez, ca, c'est mon cul. Et vous pouvez l'embrasser".
Or, in his own words:
Ce que je vous propose, c’est une morale publique retrouvée avec des dirigeants qui donnent l’exemple.
21 avril 1997.
Il n’y a aucune immunité pénale pour le président de la République » PPDA : « Et pour les responsabilités antérieures ? » « Je trouve que votre question dérape vers une certaine insolence.»
Discours annuel à la télévision, 14 juillet 1999
Nous sommes tous égaux devant la loi.
2001
(...mais certains le sont plus que d'autres)
Pour les serviteurs de la loi comme pour tous les citoyens, l'impunité de ceux qui bafouent la loi est aussi décourageante qu'insupportable.
2002
Et je dis aux Français vous n'êtes pas dans un pays où la corruption règne.
14/12/2002
And that's why Jack's the king.
quand je veux entendre un bruit hors de vous je smack de volonté vous -
Or in English
When I want to hear a noise out of you ( Poland, Czech Rep, etc ) I will smack you
On the recent survey that shows French voters slightly against the EU constitution -
Naturellement l'on a pourrait le considérer permis qu'ils devraient avoir des avis
or
Of course one might consider it permissible that they should have opinions
How badly is Babblefish messing this stuff up, anyway?
Well, Doug, Babblefish is certainly a better name than Babel Fish, indeed.
Nobody can beat the master though:
'M Chirac has jumped on the bandwagon, seized the wheel, and chose a dinner on Tuesday to condemn liberal market principles as “the new communism of our age”. '
http://www.timeson****line.co.uk/article/0,,542-1538838,00.html
You will have to remove the asterisks from the above link, but without them it will not get through the profanity filter.
Le pape, John Paul 2ème, de cette "nouvelle Europe" Pologne contry. Nous espérons que le nouveau pape peut rapporter le beter en France et nos idéaux occupés élevés d'anti-sematism et de bigoterie. Seulement dans cette vente de la France de bidon de manière plus de fromage et d'escargots.
c'est comment on doit pincer les lèvres pour embrasser les culs de nos alliés comme le hussein et l'arafat
