Pathetic attempts at French? You mean, it's possible to know more than six words or phrases?

Just so long as you got to Arc your Triomphe baby, it's all good.

Goddam, I hit Paris in 3 months and my French is so rusty I suspect nothing will be able to oil it back into action.

Ugly, creaking, orange-and-brown flaking syntax here I come!

Louvre and busting in the same paragraph...

Yeah, I'm with Monkey there Shauna. Interesting words you used overall in your blog ;) And although I've mentioned this to Ed, I think that his comment above is the shortest entry I have ever seen from him =P

You probably managed to use more French than I did in Paris - "une baguette avec jambon, s'il vous plait" was about all i could manage.

Just across the Channel---a different country, culture, language. Why can't we tow Oz up to the "real" world, instead of being stuck here! But then, if we were closer, maybe we'd be more like them--scary thought!

Svarit: Been fawning over Richard Ford's precise prose recently. Hence, brevity. :)

"Reading Digest -- Brevity Is.... Wit."

The last time I was in France, I couldn't find any public toilets.