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November 03, 2005
French Vow No Surrender in Quagmire War Against Suburban Insurgents
So they've ruled out surrenderez.
Trouble is, like the Eskimos having 40 words for "snow," the French language has over 600 close synonyms for "surrender," "roll over," "appease," or "jump on a table and shriek like a little girl having a conniption," so ruling out just one of those words really doesn't mean much.
Once upon a time Beirut was called the Paris of the Middle East.
Now Paris is Beirut on the Seine.