Thursday, May 24, 2018

Frogs and Rosbifs

A common language...

Snoopy, the World War I flying ace, enjoying an evening out in a French village.

The mutual fascination of the British and the French — or, more accurately, the English and the French — is hardly a surprise, economist.com reports.

To mock the “frogs” as posturing, self-interested intellectuals is a staple of the English press, and not just the tabloids. Their French counterparts find it easy to caricature les rosbifs as pink-faced philistines. 

For more, including reviews on two books that point out how English and French have influenced each other in England and France's long love-hate history: https://www.economist.com/node/690898

Can there be exceptions to the rules? You bet.

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