Were we nearly les franglais?

[Odin]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
English is 30% French isn't it? So in a way you already are Franglais. Pity you don't like each other enough to make the Chunnel profitable though.

IIRC words dirived from French and church Latin make up over half the language.

[Victor Galis]

Yeah, but it doesn't mean we use that many of those words in every day language.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Dauphin
The Chunnel is profitable, it's the debt mountain faced by the operating company that makes it loss-making. Declare insolvency and phoenix the assets and that is a prime piece of corporation you have there...

Ah, so one can make it profitable by not paying for it?

[Dauphin]

Rather, make it profitable by not having ridiculous capital financing.

[Zkribbler]

Naw. That was ridiculous financing.

What is ridiculous is the loan default cases I see everday where some yoyo agreed to pay 20 or 25% interest on a car loan or 50 or 55% on a signature loan. I'd like to shoot the lenders and slap the borrowers in the face with a large fish.

[axi]

These "let's merge our nations" ideas are really lame. And of course they never work.

If they, did, Quadaffi would now own half of north Africa. He made merger offers to Algeria, Tunisia and Tchad in the late 70's and early 80's. One was accepted and lasted for about a month, IIRC.

[Barnabas]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic