pas même avec un accent Cajun

Avec l'accent Canadien, je l'entends presque!

Dieu sauvent la reine.

In 1958, Eugene Burdick ( an American political scientist ) and William Lederer ( an Annapolis graduate and self-described Cold Warrior ) published a political novel titled The Ugly American . Their thesis was that ignorant and chauvinistic attitudes such as those displayed in the polemic below are largely responsible for the difficulties the United States has encountered in its effort to establish a global Pax Americana . Clearly, the Ugly American has not disappeared. I am an American, and a Vietnam veteran, and I completely repudiate these views. They are outrageous and disgraceful. Do not condemn all Americans on the basis of this drivel...

Oh, by the way, this is an awesome song!

The key to the translation here is that "calle" ("street") is also slang for prostitute.

In 1958, Eugene Burdick ( an American political scientist ) and William Lederer ( an Annapolis graduate and self-described Cold Warrior ) published a political novel titled The Ugly American . Their thesis was that ignorant and chauvinistic attitudes such as those displayed in the polemic below are largely responsible for the difficulties the United States has encountered in its effort to establish a global Pax Americana . Clearly, the Ugly American has not disappeared. I am an American, and a Vietnam veteran, and I completely repudiate these views. They are outrageous and disgraceful. Do not condemn all Americans on the basis of this drivel...

Oh, by the way, this is an awesome song!

lwilkinson wrote:

The key to the translation here is that "calle" ("street") is also slang for prostitute.

They call me street *

OK. You hate Texas for some reason and view everyone there as either a herd of bigots or simple country-folk with closed minds (do I hear an Obama-con in there somewhere, “They cling to their……”). Whatever. Science indicates that 90% of all animal life that’s ever lived is dead. Humans had nothing to do with it. It’s called Darwinism. As someone who spent a lot of time in university studying a dual major of psych and sociology, cultures also die out due their inability to “keep up” so-to-speak. All illegal immigration is towards English dominated or English as a major school taught second language (France, Eastern Europe, etc.) countries. I don’t see any great migration towards the Philippines (tagalong), Mexico (Spanish), S. Vietnam (Vietnamese which didn’t have any written forms until the French invented it) ……….well, you get the point. Why should anyone be required to carry around a basket of hysterical guilt over NOT wanting to spend valuable time learning a language that may very well be romantic (Spanish) or of value in the past (Anuit, Aztec, Urdu, etc.) but that today has no intrinsic value other than to “preserve cultures” which as you even note, themselves produce parochial views that hold the native speakers back in a morass of poverty and ignorance. It’s painfully (and to be honest regrettably) apparent that those who speak Tagalog or Tibetan want to come here (American) for opportunity instead of staying behind. That must mean that for all the criticism leveled at it, Americans and English speakers form other countries consider English the language of opportunity, not the other way around and that the rest of the world sees what the “cultural preserver movement” or the “Atzlan feathered serpent movement” do not………English is the language of opportunity and if the rest of the languages and cultures are intended to survive then they will on their own and will do so without the attempt to make others carry your “guilt” over everyone not being multi-lingual like that in an of itself is some “magic potion”. OK……..back the music. Sorry for the diatribe but every once in a while some folks on RP put a little too much “non-music” stuff out there that I get pretty tired of hearing on the job everyday. I don’t really like it on my music space and after a while I just get an earful and fire one back. Get a life and improve your opportunity by improving your English communication skills.

Manu Ginobli is much better at what he does than Manu Chao.