{"id":6985,"date":"2010-05-10T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2010-05-09T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:05:34","slug":"french-maids-french-fancy-french-letters-and-french-kissing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=6985","title":{"rendered":"French Maids, French Fancy, French Letters and French Kissing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 5px;\" src=\"\/images\/wench-french-fancy.jpg\" alt=\"French Wench\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/>There are some words and phrases that make humour and other kinds of wordplay difficult if not impossible to translate to other languages. It&#8217;s a simple matter of how language develops in different geographies and within different cultures.<\/p>\n<p>One phrase which will probably not translate outside of English is &#8220;French Fancy&#8221;. It was often used as I recall by Les Dawson, legendary British comedian as an inference that someone was having extra-marital relations as in &#8220;having a French Fancy&#8221;. Quite tame but subversive nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>This has meant that since childhood I have always had a problem with that particular confectionary. Not because they are horribly sweet and prone to making your teeth rot if you so much as look at them but because I always get an image in my head not unlike the inset picture whenever anyone offers me one.<\/p>\n<p>Then of course there was the line from a later comedy show (the Fast Show I think) who lampooned Dick Emery&#8217;s buck-toothed vicar. A WI member uttered a line to the effect of &#8220;vicar can I press you to a cream slice?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patisserie porn. Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some words and phrases that make humour and other kinds of wordplay difficult if not impossible to translate to other languages. It&#8217;s a simple matter of how language &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=6985\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1120,3,35],"tags":[1301,2294,1302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6986,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions\/6986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}