I enjoyed Rogers' politically incorrect rabbiting, requesting we boycott the nonsense of pointless time and money-wasting macrons shortly to enter our lives.
I was inspired to make the macron soup carefully following RR's recipe of very unusual ingredients.
I found it much enhanced served with a politically incorrect side-dish of stewed (stu-ed with-a-macron-over-the-U) toadying mayor, lightly topped with a drizzle of sarcasm.
As the French say: 'Tres bien!” (With-a-grave-accent-over-the-first-E).
R Bishop, Greerton.


4 comments
So French accents are OK?
Posted on 22-06-2014 14:24 | By waxing
So a grave accent over a French "e" is OK but not a macron over a Maori word?
French?
Posted on 23-06-2014 13:22 | By Murray.Guy
What has French got to do with anything, or any other written language relevant to any other culture? Maori certainly have rights to provide historical place names. In the absence of a written language, english is used. Hardly confusing or in any way racist.
It indicates pronunciation
Posted on 24-06-2014 12:41 | By waxing
Sorry Murray that you don't understand the macron - it is there to aid pronunciation, just as the accent is in French and the umlaut is in German. Or are you saying that pronunciation isn't important?
French accents
Posted on 12-07-2014 13:48 | By Skidmarks
I'm surprised that no-one has pointed out your mistake R. Bishop. There are two accents used in the French language over the 'e'. An acute accent (slopes upwards from L to R) means the 'e' is pronounced as 'ay' while an grave accent(pronounced 'grarve' which slopes the other way - downwards from L to R)means the 'e' is pronounced as 'air'. The accent over the 'e' in 'tres' is acute not grave.
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