[Sca-cooks] Accidental french

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Personally, I find it charming.  I am reminded of a character in Umberto Eco's THE
NAME OF THE ROSE, who spoke in a mixed-up polyglot that most people probably found
hard to read.  I understand a smattering of many European languages, and that's
what he was speaking, so I was fine with it.

I took French and Hebrew at the same time for a year.  My crossover mistakes were
Interesting.

Obligatory food content:  many feasts here in Caid are multi-cultural and
multi-time-period.  They seem so used to it that Jared's seasonal 15th Century
French menu is getting a few negative comments for being too limited.  Excuse me?
A negative comment about doing something more authentically than usual?  He's too
polite to grump about it but I am not.

Selene Colfox
selene at earthlink.net

Ana Valdés wrote:

> Many times is not a choice or an intuition but a speedy pushing of the
> keyboard, as in Modestal. but charned or proviant?? Maybe archaic aceptions of
> modern words? I am by the way raised by German nuns and my grandparents were
> Italian, it means all my languages are mixed up and I am not longer sure about
> spelling or syntax in any language.
> But I hope my posts are enough eadable and understable. The whole point  is the
> most of us, non-native English speakers, speak and write a "broken English".
> But tell me if you find some of my posts uncomprehensible.
> Ana