Show r j Speaks French Too VI Well ell ell for Natives I I 1 f The French are so stupid that they t cant can't understand their own language i i when I speak It writes a boy who is isi i now in the aviation division in France Learning French is learning the language of the whale It cant can't be did I You know we are very much French rench now I 1 even find it difficult to write the English language Such words as l' l yes potato and very are seldom heard among us French trained fliers Oui pomme de terre and coup beau are always used to express the above j words Yes indeed I speak splendid French Vh When n I converse with the f I natives I am often otten mistaken for a aj ai hoehe or anything anything- but a Frenchman I I r I asked a waitress what she had for dessert I said it all in beautiful French She got everything but the dessert So I 1 it in every conceivable conceivable conceivable con con- way putting the accent on a different vowel each time But no use use The preceding words 0 of course meant nothing when she couldn't understand understand understand un un- un- un this one and nd there was a perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- good sentence gone to waste waste- the fruit of eight months' months study just jus t because this stupid waitress didn't didn t know the French word for after dinner luxuries I turned somersaults pointed at various goodies around me made faces and went through all sorts of capers But when I had finished |