Drat the Boys/Max ORell unterrichtet französisch in England
am 12.05.2008 von Transblawg
Injured by friendly fire in the second siege of Paris, Max ORell found himself travelling to England and finished up teaching French to English schoolboys. His reminiscences are entitled DRAT THE BOYS!. Max ORell was the pseudonym of Léon Paul Blouet - see Wikipedia.
English boys have invented a special kind of English language for French translation.
It is not the English they use with their classical and other masters; it is not the English they use at home with their parents, or at school with their comrades: it is a special article kept for the sole benefit of their French masters.
The good genus boy will translate oui, mon père, by yes, my father, as if it were possible for him to forget that he calls his papa father, and not my father, when he addresses him.
He very seldom reads over his translation to ascertain that it reads like English; but when he does, and is not particularly satisfied with the result, he lays the blame on the French original. After all, it is not his fault if there is no sense in the French, and he brings a certain number of English dictionary words placed one after the other, the whole entitled FRENCH.
Of course he could not call it ENGLISH, and he dared not call it NONSENSE.
He calls it FRENCH, and relieves his conscience.
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