This Day in History (March 20): Today is French Language Day. I often marvel as to how ridiculous the French language is. For instance, 99 is "quatre-vingt-dix-neuf." It's like they have to count to 99 to say it. "What is that" in French is "qu'est-ce que c'est?" which means "what is this that this is." In French "the green worm goes towards the green glass" translates to: "LE VER VERT VA VERS LE VERRE VERT!" In French you have to be concerned about the gender of words, and many words have silent endings, making for a lot of wasteful ink. In French Canada, church buildings are swear words. Even Mark Twain weighed in on the French language: "In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
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