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and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Franco Kartaki in Reconciliation here at

Card Talk Plaza. Now everybody knows, I guessed, that we have recently been all over whom.

The French!

Do they deserve it? Well, yes.

Besides making weird cars and lobbying against daylight savings time and trying to ban perfectly good English

words like L'A Supermarket and L' Nintendo, they have done all these things with what we consider

to be typical French arrogance right yeah and we admit tell us

about it we took umbrage at all that but now we realize it's time for

closure time to heal the wounds, time for reconciliation.

It's a new year, a new era, and besides, they finally admitted that they're arrogant and rude.

Get this! Well, they are no... that they I'm not so sure that there's cause for celebration here. I'm getting this from an article written by Lynn Terry who evidently writes for the Boston Globe once in a while and does things for NPR.

But she, Paris musters a gallic shrug for rudeness. Paris, one of the last great French traditions, one that has

withstood an onslaught of American pop culture, global high-tech communications,

and the invasion of English language phrases is now under threat. Galact disdain long considered especially by Anglo-Saxons to be the rule here rather than the exception is giving way to courtesy.

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