"If you confront fifty French soldiers with five English ones, the French will run" - Mark Twain

>"If you confront fifty French soldiers with five English ones, the French will run" - Mark Twain
what did he mean by this?

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>Brexit means Brexit

What did she mean???

LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS

i don't know what's wrong with Mark Twain, he had such a big hatred for the french
here's some quotes from him
twainquotes.com/French.html

quite sad that most of how americans imagine the french, it comes from this guy

he didn't like Germans much either

what was wrong with him

he visited France and Germany and found out the truth

>There is nothing lower than the human race except the French.

>French are the connecting link between man & the monkey.

Imagine being this butthurt

>tfw nobody's checking your dub-trip-dubs

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>mfw he's absolutely right

maybe he got cucked by a french or something? I can't imagine someone saying such stuff without it being personal
or maybe it's some next level banter and we're not getting it

Kek he fortold the memes before they became real
Nah he seems like he really hates you guys desu

Twain wrote a novel on Joan of Arc so I don't think he hated France that much, he just liked to banter

>Paris
oh i understand now

Twain was a twat who was, for some reason, obsessed with us.

Maybe he realized the frenchman is superior to the eternal anglo and therefore tried to rewrite history, as a good anglo

French literature is overrated rigmarole

back to JVC faggot

>French are the connecting link between man & the monkey.

My ancestor :)

What makes you think I'm from this shitty stupid website, my friend?

Twain's only crime was being too honest the French Question.

>There is nothing lower than the human race except the French.
>A dead Frenchman has many good qualities, many things to recommend him; many attractions--even innocencies. Why cannot we have more of these?

a bit mean t b h

>anglos
>being honest

>tfw monkeys have better food than you

What does that make us?

JVC fags are obsessed with this guy in the gif

>8,000 englishmen vs 60,000 frenchmen

Is this sick cunt serious?

HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE

DELET

>"Since eight thousand Englishmen nearly annihilated sixty thousand Frenchmen a dozen years ago at Agincourt, French courage has been paralyzed. And so it is a common saying, to-day, that if you confront fifty French soldiers with five English ones, the French will run"
he's not wrong though, it makes sense
anglos are better warriors and history proved it

Most of them are about the French being degenerate lmoa

>french are rude monkeys
>I wish they were dead
>paris is shit
>I like french language but i-it's not like I like them or a-anything~~

That's wrong, tho, lots of anons unironically like him.

Also, how could you know? Do you visit this website very often? :^)

Since I'm half-gaulish, half-briton, I'm an hobbit-monkey mutt...

Can I go to England and bring you some sophisticated food?

>A French married lady cannot enter even a menagerie without bringing the purity of that menagerie under suspicion.
hahahahahahah rekt

hello, Nigel

French men are effeminate

so are brits

I'm of french blood

Brits are erudite, beefy and courageous, every woman's fantasy

>They argued, in English

Don't gauls just brew potions and eat roasted boar?

>a portuguese poster appears
>in order to suck british dicks

Oh, wow, imagine my shock :^)

s-someday I will learn...

Not an argument, go back to your bricklaying

we didn't argued, and we weren't talking about british??
did you even read the thread? i don't understand this post

Fun thread so far I'm enjoying it. I hope we can keep up the pace in the second half.

nah, I'm hungry

i used to browse it at the end of middle school so i know it a bit
last year a guy in my classroom often used this website despite being 23 and he was always talking aboutt Lesquen and other jvc memes

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>In certain public indecencies the difference between a dog & a Frenchman is not perceptible.

I wonder
Especially when you know how many times numerically superior British armies dunkirked from the continent in fear when faced by with a French army

mata-te

>being this butthurt
you are embarassing

>Henry de Lesquen
>JVC meme

Really makes one think

well i've never heard of it outside of him

what
we didn't say anything. Have you read the thread?

Could you be more submissive?
Your irrational fear of appearing "butthurt" is getting out of hands m8

You're not supposed to care about how people will perceive your posts

gotta know when to fold em

not my fault if your a weak assblasted fag

It's a shame Gary, they just lost special something in the second half.

>language == vocabulary
how reductive and uneducated. have you heard of grammar and cases?

There is a referendum running in France after the refugee crisis.

They want to remove the blue and red from the flag to be more accurate. (Would you vote YES or NO?)

lol

Shut up burger, this is the weekly France vs Britain thread, your fat unable to dish out banter ass is not welcome.

t. French abroad

how do you guys still find it funny after so many years

>t. French abroad
Fuck off tabarnak

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U be kiddin I?
Who cares about grammar lmao

You're grasping at straws here. Stop making us look bad.

They also punch Romans, by Toutatis!

honestly, you could make so many jokes about us...but you always pick the worst ones, the ones that are so used, used, overused and boring.

antifas want to punch nazis, I want to punch FUCKING ROMANS

I visited both countries. I think France is better overral. More organized, less "diverse".

It's true though. There are more than 100 000 french citizens in Québec.

>France
>organized

France is the most mixed country in Europe m8

>grasping at straws
Spoken like some churl who has never learned any language beyond English. Do you really think the difficulty of learning German is bullshit vocabulary like "das Auto"?

No, it's memorizing cases, irregular verbs, split verbs, word order, SVO agreement and all of the other grammar. English isn't influenced by French whatsoever in any of that, it's all Germanic in origin.

Get educated you asswipe.

The difficulty of learning German for an English speaker is vocabulary too
Meanwhile, that issue is lesser with French given that shittons of words are identical to English

You read my post but didn't understand it. How typically French

Well, London scared me, honestly. Oxford was ok. In my opinion France is a beautiful country, people are more educated. People in britain are noisy. People in the metro in Paris were very silent and I spotted many people reading. I saw more diversity in London than in Paris. I went also to small cities in France, such as Provins. I didnt see even one arab/black. Immigrants can be seen anywhere in England.

>can't read
>arguing about something no one gives a shit about
Embarrassing.

I love the hate there is between us.
It's like our little precious thing.
Us, master of the past, soon to disappear.
I hope that future generations will remember that we hated each other very much.

>Well, London scared me, honestly.
There's no fucking way a Brazilian could possibly say this with a straight face.
Fuck off.

>you read my post but ignored it
FTFY

True. Other countries can't get it.

No this is just an objective fact m8, France has the highest African and Muslim diaspora in Europe, also the highest Jewish population

even their whites are mostly mixed with Italians, Poles, Portuguese etc the UK is totally different in this regard

>didn't understand my post
Is English even your first language or are you a spic?

>claim: "they argued, in English"
>counter-claim: "I am not speaking English because 28% of its vocabulary is French and 28% is Latin"
>claim: "Vocabulary doesn't matter shit compared to grammar"
>counter-claim: "Buh buh buh vocabulary"

I broke it down for you since your brain is oozing out of your ears. Go to any linguistics department in any university and tell them that languages are categorized by loanwords. Seriously. Go do it, record it, and load it up to youtube so everyone can laugh at you. Language is grammar, not vocabulary.

Twain was buttblasted because the French bantered him about keeping shoes in a cupboard with a bucket of ice.
Also they called him fat and told him to go get involved in a pistol duel.

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Good God

based

Good ol 19th century banter

accurate

I've never been to Rio de Janeiro or the northeast, the most violent areas. São Paulo scared me, but I didnt feel safer in London. Peckham specially scared the hell out of me, everone in that area looks suspect. Also, everyone I talked to there sayed they were either from Nigeria or Pakistan/Afganistan. I didnt feel confortable there at all. Brazil is extremely dangerous, but that doesnt mean some areas in Brazil arent better than some areas of Europe. The same goes to Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. I was not impressed with England and dont plan to go back. Europe has a lot better to offer.

>going to Peckham
what are you doing lmao

Fat american comes to France but can't handle the banter ? Many such cases

the most plausible explanation is that he was cucked hard by a frenchman, probably several times

hatred for no reason ofter comes from this. Its not like the US had a war with France at that time of that his country was overrun with baguette eating frenchmen

then why did they loose all their teritory in france ? If their are so succesful warior ?

France didn't like the U.S up until the 1870s

A young French heretic made a deal with the devil.

They're not celtic enough

Twain lived in Mississippi I doubt he met many French people there

CRASHING YOUR IRRELEVANT COUNTRY WITH NO SURVIVORS

explain?