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...Veterans Administration he would be studying French, but he never showed up for class. Indeed, he never learned the language, getting by on body English and the Franglais that eventually made his Paris dispatches (including, among other things, the famous Thanksgiving number that translated Miles Standish as Kilometres Deboutish) even funnier to Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FRANGLAIS SPOKEN HERE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

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