French lessons: Grannie on her bike rides across the pool

Boby Lapointe, an obsessive, deranged comic genius who seems to have drunk himself to death aged 50, points to one of the delicious traps lying in wait for elephants who proceed beyond their French-English phrasebooks – the fact that of the supposed infinity of possible sentences in natural language, most are nonsense: What time is…

The concept of historical periodisation

… when writ large is misleading and restrictive, so away with it: “Un tĂșnel medieval construido durante el renacimiento, abandonado por siglos, y recientemente restaurado, vincula el lado italiano con el lado francĂ©s de los Alpes.“