On 9/30/2017 8:40 AM, Janet wrote:
> When Americans use a French term, just accept, IT IS FRENCH and that
> the way the French speak French is the correct way.
>
> Janet UK
>
>

Oh bugger off, you slave of the mispronunciation of "pah...sta"...as
"pass...tuh'.

You englies have been mangling Fwonce for eons now.

On Saturday, September 30, 2017 at 10:41:00 AM UTC-4, Janet wrote:

> When Americans use a French term, just accept, IT IS FRENCH and that
> the way the French speak French is the correct way.
>
> Janet UK

I'll get on board with that when the British stop pronouncing
foreign words as if they were English.

<https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/key-to-pronunciation-languages/>

Cindy Hamilton

On 9/30/2017 9:08 AM, Gary wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> You should have ordered pie for dessert to see if the waiter asked if
>> you wanted some a la mode with it.
>
> I had apple pie with vanilla ice cream for dessert last night.
> Go monitor a parking lot, Dave. ;-D
>

He's too busy reminiscing about his days ion the "chicken coop" pouring
over trucker log books for any discrepancy to ruin their days with.

On 9/30/2017 11:08 AM, Gary wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> You should have ordered pie for dessert to see if the waiter asked if
>> you wanted some a la mode with it.
>
> I had apple pie with vanilla ice cream for dessert last night.
> Go monitor a parking lot, Dave. ;-D
>

pie au jus? pie au vanilla?

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> On 9/30/2017 11:08 AM, Gary wrote:
> > I had apple pie with vanilla ice cream for dessert last night.
>
> pie au jus? pie au vanilla?

I'll stick to the english language and just say, "apple pie with
vanilla ice cream."
Hopefully, no one will argue about that description. :-D

On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 12:02:50 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:33:06 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 11:09:37 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> So what you are telling us is that the US has its own version of a
>>> French term ? French cooking terms "au" and "a la" mean "with",
>>> depending on whether the word is masculine or feminine.
>>>
>>> au jus .... with juice
>>> au lait .....with milk
>>> au chocolat ...... with chocolate
>>> a l'orange ...... with orange
>>
>> A la mode ..... with ice cream
>
>"a la mode" means "in the current fashion" or "fashionable".
>Americans *******ized it to mean "with ice cream".

Did you read that, cshenk? Put it like that and there's no
disagreement at all.

On 10/1/2017 11:02 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> Americans *******ized it

Steve Wertz - unrepentant woman stalker and total head case begging poor
Omelet to shoot him with a sniper rifle in austin.food:

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Sorry I don't fit either of your Ideal Psycho Pal Profiles.

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On 10/1/2017 12:29 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> starts buzzing.
>
> -sw

Steve Wertz - unrepentant woman stalker and total head case begging poor
Omelet to shoot him with a sniper rifle in austin.food:

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Sorry I don't fit either of your Ideal Psycho Pal Profiles.

-sw
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I'd prefer you use a sniper rifle on me from a few hundred yards away.
There you go - a reason for you to buy yet another gun and ammo.

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Hide the Ho Ho's!!!