Monday 25 June 2007
French Letters
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After opting to take the Sunday Herald yesterday, I was delighted to find a restaurant review chiding an upmarket eatery for foreign language spelling abuse (You Gimme Hope, Joanna).
This is a double-pronged sin. The restaurant, in their smattered employment of French, have been deliberately abstruse so as to seem better, nay classier, than they really are, and then managed to do that wrongly. This brings to mind broadsheet columnists and their incongruous deployment of Latin phrases.
Malmaison, with your 'Wow-factor suites' and ambiguous invite for us to ‘Eat, drink and sleep it’, welcome to The List.
This is a double-pronged sin. The restaurant, in their smattered employment of French, have been deliberately abstruse so as to seem better, nay classier, than they really are, and then managed to do that wrongly. This brings to mind broadsheet columnists and their incongruous deployment of Latin phrases.
Malmaison, with your 'Wow-factor suites' and ambiguous invite for us to ‘Eat, drink and sleep it’, welcome to The List.
Labels: foreign language spelling errors, Malmaison, menus, The List
posted by Dan at 11:24 am
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3 Comments:
Don't be a wuss Dan, name and shame!
The "restaurant", the "upmarket eatery"? It was Malmaison, Malmaison can't spell and according to Joanna Blythman their food is crap as well.
What are they going to do, sue us? Bring it on, we could do with the publicity...
Just noticed, you did name and shame. Apologies for my haste.
P.S. Malmaison serve human baby burgers.
I saw so much useful data in this post!
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