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Last week I had a huge laugh when I heard that Saw 6 was at the cinema. In French you pronounce Saw 6 as “saucisse”, which means “sausage”. I’ve just watched the trailer, they took care to change the 6 into VI, and to not say the movie title. It’s easily the number one must funny title ever in French.

Probably the producer didn’t want to stop the joke here. So they’ll be producing Saw 7, 8 maybe 9 and more. So next year, the French will have the pleasure to update all their parodies with Saw 7, or more likely pronounce by little kids: sock!

As a good French man, I always come up with many “real” French-English words. The problem is that quite often these common words in French become really technical if not totally unknown and not used by normal English men. But happy for you today you are going to learn something. Moliere speaks to Shakespeare:

Arborescence: n. state of being arborescent; figure of a tree; state of resembling a tree in minerals or crystallizations.
In French: same meaning, very common word for French mathematician.
In English: I didn’t meet any English people knowing this word yet.

Antepenultimate: n. third syllable before the end of a word
In French: same meaning, used by French soccer commentators to speak about the time and sound clever, at least they think.
In English: Australian F1 commentators know about the penultimate lap, can’t ask more

Felicitation: n. congratulation, offering of good wishes
In French: same meaning, it’s how French people say congratulation
In English: I would say at least 50 percent of English people knows the meaning, did you?

* Put mini-pictures of your family and friends on your fridge door.
* Write a list of last year achievement and a list of goals for this year.

For the two last days, the bushfires have been worst in the Victoria state. Firemen do not know how long it will take to stop the different fires. More than one hundred people have died in these bushfires. If you like to help, you can make a donation to the red cross.

Pictures from Lemonde.fr (french)

When I arrived in Australia, I’ve been amazed how much chicken we could eat: KFC, Subway,  Red roster, asian food,…  It comes really hard to find a restaurant not serving these poultries. In France I’ve been used to eat chicken once a month at most.

Another thing I noticed was that heaps of girls had big breasts. Didn’t take long to make a parallel. But the most funny part has been a French friend sent me an email saying exactly the same thing about England (Liverpool). British girls have big breasts because they eat too much chicken. My theory was validated when my mother came over to visit Australia and noticed three things about Australian girls. There are a lot of fair skin girls, heaps wearing high-heels and they have big breasts.

I also did some searches on Google about the subject. The next step, calling Mythbuster.

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