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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Thats one more problem with the stupid French contraption. An absolute pita to get to the spare.

Try a Megane estate; there's a sticker with pictograms that 'explain' how the mechanism works. They were drawn by someone who had never seen the mechanism. Or a car. Or a wheel. Then they were prettied up by a graphic designer who clearly thought they'd been hired to draw Manga.

Pretty sure the C**o has the same laughable instructions.

[Doctor Gollum]

They're in French, so noone is any the wiser

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Certainly not me. I had four years of school lessons in that piss poor excuse for a language and took no notice whatsoever.
Its utterly hideous.

[Sir Tigger KC]

The French language is quite gender specific non?   

Calling Lord Opti! 

[dave the builder]

I'm just a thick builder , I could never get my head round french words being feminine and masculine , Le and La 
I had to do technical German too as part of my engineering diploma
I only passed the German part by squatting up the night before tests 
I still struggle with "the English" and i've lived here 50 years   

[Broomies Mate]

I'm just a thick builder , I could never get my head round french words being feminine and masculine , Le and La 
I had to do technical German too as part of my engineering diploma
I only passed the German part by squatting up the night before tests 
I still struggle with "the English" and i've lived here 50 years 

Die, Der & Das.  I remember it (not very) well! 

[dave the builder]

I'm just a thick builder , I could never get my head round french words being feminine and masculine , Le and La 
I had to do technical German too as part of my engineering diploma
I only passed the German part by squatting up the night before tests 
I still struggle with "the English" and i've lived here 50 years 

Die, Der & Das.  I remember it (not very) well! 

I just had to google "Die, Der & Das"  I'd blanked the trauma of it all from memory 
It was only very basic German, counting, part names, directions, pleasantries,
I can remember counting 1 to 9 , wouldn't know how to spell the numbers though 
I can count to eleventy six  in English  though    

[STEMO]

Amo Amas Amat was the first language I learned at high school.

[Doctor Gollum]

Latin is a dead language etc, etc, etc

[johnnydog]

Amabo, amabis, amabit, amabimus, amabitis, amabunt....
It's all coming back to me - after all those years....

[STEMO]

Amabo, amabis, amabit, amabimus, amabitis, amabunt....
It's all coming back to me - after all those years....

I never took enough notice, even at eleven years of age I realised I probably wouldn't need it to get by.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I speak it like a native.   

[Nick W]

I'm just a thick builder , I could never get my head round french words being feminine and masculine , Le and La 
I had to do technical German too as part of my engineering diploma
I only passed the German part by squatting up the night before tests 
I still struggle with "the English" and i've lived here 50 years 

Die, Der & Das.  I remember it (not very) well! 

And let's not forget that the definite article and pronouns change depending on the case. English has the cases, but we only change the pronouns - he to him for instance. That English only applies genders to nouns that have a sex makes this much easier, most of the time.


Once again for those who are confused/appalled/ignorant/intolerant, gender is a grammatical term not a biological one.

[Andy B]

....
And let's not forget that the definite article and pronouns change depending on the case. English has the cases, but we only change the pronouns - he to him for instance. That English only applies genders to nouns that have a sex makes this much easier, most of the time.


Once again for those who are confused/appalled/ignorant/intolerant, gender is a grammatical term not a biological one.

  you lost me at 'definitive article' .... 

[Nick W]

....
And let's not forget that the definite article and pronouns change depending on the case. English has the cases, but we only change the pronouns - he to him for instance. That English only applies genders to nouns that have a sex makes this much easier, most of the time.


Once again for those who are confused/appalled/ignorant/intolerant, gender is a grammatical term not a biological one.

  you lost me at 'definitive article' .... 

They use a different word for 'the' depending on the gender of the noun, which is the "Der, die, das" Broomies Mate mentioned. These change again depending on the structure of the sentence. English dropped this a very long time ago.