The Independent - London, March 19th, 1997
Here is your first lesson in the French that they do not teach in school. Even in France. Elle est vraiment Muroroa. Elle a des tres grands airbags. In the youth slang of the French banlieus, or inner suburbs, this translates approximately as: "She is a real bombshell. She has enormous boobs." French is a sublimely beautiful language, so beautiful that some French people believe it should be wrapped in tissue paper and hidden away in a drawer. This is not the view of Jean-Pierre Goudaillier, professor of linguistics at the Sorbonne, who has published the first dictionary of words torn direct...
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