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Booyakasha
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02 Jun 2011, 11:18 am

Oui, sauvage français :lol:



TallyMan
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02 Jun 2011, 11:32 am

It's all these French natives, they are a bad influence. :wink:

The word that got me into trouble was "indigène". So one can refer to indigenous people in English but not the "same" word in French without insulting them - i.e. inadvertently calling them savages. :lol:


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