Just wasted an entire afternoon when I should have been working. FIrst, I had to go to the bank to fix a problem that they had made. This is the third time I've had to go to solve the SAME problem. The branch office manager told me on the phone that the solution would be free. Then, when I get there and enact the solution, I find that there is a cost. Which can only be retroceeded (Is that even a word in English?) tomorrow. ha! So since there was no sense sitting in the bank until tomorrow, I came home. But I was soooooo steamed that I had to write a complaint letter to calm down. And that took me all afternoon or at least most of what was left of it after I got back from the bank, since I had to write it in French and my written French is a little iffy. (No comments, MDGnat)
"Perhaps what the average member of a group is capable of doesn't limit what a given individual can accomplish." -- Boston Globe, letter to the editor
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Maybe you should let me reread the letter
I just love writing letters of complaint in French
It's such a great language for saying F U in such roundabout terms
and
then you add the little p.s. excusing yourself for the (non-existent)
mistakes in French because you "ne maitrise pas le français comme je le
voudrais"
et toc!
It puts me from a bad into a brilliant humour
but then that's the Irish begrudger in me
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I could, but
then you'd know how badly I write in French.
In my defense, I only learned "dans la rue". I've had no formal training. In anycase, it's irksome to write in French. *sigh*
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I know a lot of people who write badly in French
A lot of them are French engineers who send me documents to translate
The English versions are a lot better than the French, because they have grammar, and correct spelling
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OMG, you mean French engineers are worse than
American ones at writing?!! Oh, you poor thing!!!!!
Penn, who lives with an engineer who actually writes well (but he's unusual in his profession for that little talent . . .)
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