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[quote user="NormanH"]We are in France, so it seems logical to follow French custom and practice in the matter, and not impose British attitudes.[/quote]

You are allowed to bring your brain with you to France.    And what if a French person agrees with your "British" attitude?   Puts you in a bit of a quandary! 

 

[quote user="NormanH"]

For an idea of what our French hosts think, [/quote]

Do you live in a B&B?

 

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[quote user="Christine Animal"]

Tell me Saligobay, how do you do double quotes?  I don't know how to do that.  When you quote someone just their quote comes out, but how do you get a second one in the same post?  I've seen it done before and often wondered.   [:)]

 

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[quote user="Christine Animal"]

Tell me Saligobay, how do you do

double quotes?  I don't know how to do that.  When you quote someone

just their quote comes out, but how do you get a second one in the same

post?  I've seen it done before and often wondered.   [:)]

 

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[quote user="Christine Animal"]

Tell me Saligobay, how do you do

double quotes?  I don't know how to do that.  When you quote someone

just their quote comes out, but how do you get a second one in the same

post?  I've seen it done before and often wondered.   [:)]

 

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Just cut and paste the HTML quote code ( the first and last lines of the text after you hit the quote button)

and put the relevant text in between. Simple eh? [:)]

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[quote user="Christine Animal"]

Yes, thanks, I get that when it is sectioning the text of the quote or quoting several times the same post.  But I thought I'd seen several different posts quoted at the same time in the same post, but maybe I hadn't.   [8-)]

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You mean like this;

[quote user="Tandem Pilot"]

Yes, thanks, I get that when it is

sectioning the text of the quote or quoting several times the same

post.  But I thought I'd seen several different posts quoted at the

same time in the same post, but maybe I hadn't.   [8-)]

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and of course there is the opportunity for mischief; [:D]

[quote user="Christine Animal"]

I really don't understand this at all [8-)]

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[quote user="NormanH"]We are in France, so it seems logical to follow French custom and practice in the matter, and not impose British attitudes.[/quote]

You are allowed to bring your brain with you to France.    And what if a French person agrees with your "British" attitude?   Puts you in a bit of a quandary! 

 

[quote user="NormanH"]

For an idea of what our French hosts think, [/quote]

Do you live in a B&B?

 

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I presume your sarcasm means that you didn't understand the French site [:P]

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[quote user="Cat"]

Good grief, if Saligo Bay doesn't understand it then no one will Norman [:P]

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Could someone explain what it is zat is not undserstood and by whom?

Is it this?

[quote user="Christine Animal"]

[quote user="Tandem_Pilot"]

Christine, you are so dumb, can't you understand anything!

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Yes, I know.  SaligoBay has very kindly sent me a pm.  I'll go and see if I can understand her version.   [:P]

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Quotes in quotes?

Or this:

[quote user="Cat"]

Good grief, if Saligo Bay doesn't understand it then no one will Norman [:P]

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Is there a verb "to Norman"?

[quote user="Cat"]

Good grief, someone just set fire to my knickers [:P]

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[:D]

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[quote user="NormanH"]We are in France, so it seems logical to follow French custom and practice in the matter, and not impose British attitudes.

For an idea of what our French hosts think, this site is interesting:
http://www.peniche.com/Breves/eqte_sep_rag.htm
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[quote user="SaligoBay"]

You are allowed to bring your brain with you to France.    And what if a French person agrees with your "British" attitude?   Puts you in a bit of a quandary! 

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[quote user="NormanH"]

I presume your sarcasm means that you didn't understand the French site [:P]
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I presumed that his sarcasm meant that he no idea that Saligo Bay is one of the smartest people on the forum [:$]  No word of a lie, pants not even warm, thank you.

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[quote user="Christine Animal"]

Tell me Saligobay, how do you do double quotes?  I don't know how to do that.  When you quote someone just their quote comes out, but how do you get a second one in the same post?  I've seen it done before and often wondered.   [:)]

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Yes how do you do that? Please can I know as well [8-)]

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Allora.  When you click on "Quote" on someone's post in order to reply to it,  you see something like this:

[ quote user="SaligoBay" ] French people like Marmite.  Marmite is delicious.  [ / quote ]

If you want to argue those two points separately, you split the quote up and re-tag it with the extra tags it needs.  You add your comments, and your post will look something like this:

[ quote user="SaligoBay" ] French people like Marmite. [ / quote ]

No they don't.  It's part of the constitution of the 5th Republic that they're not allowed to like Marmite.

[ quote user="SaligoBay" ]  Marmite is delicious.  [ / quote ]

Only if you have no taste buds.

If you want to back up your argument with something that Cat has said, you can copy-and-paste Cat's comments from wherever they are into your post, and tag them up:

[ quote user="Cat" ] Marmite was first used in the Napoleonic Wars to make the Paris marsh frogs taste bad, in the hope that the French troops would die of starvation. [ / quote ]

There you go, SB, historical proof that the French don't like Marmite!

I've left lots of spaces in these examples within the square brackets, so that you can see what the tags look like.   If you remove the spaces the tags should resolve properly........

[quote user="SaligoBay"] French people like Marmite. [/quote]

No they don't.  It's part of the constitution of the 5th Republic that they're not allowed to like Marmite.

[quote user="SaligoBay"]  Marmite is delicious.  [/quote]

Only if you have no taste buds.

[quote user="Cat"] Marmite was first used in the Napoleonic Wars to make the Paris marsh frogs taste bad, in the hope that the French troops would die of starvation. [/quote]

There you go, SB, historical proof that the French don't like Marmite!

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[quote user="SaligoBay"]

Allora.  When you click on "Quote" on someone's post in order to reply to it,  you see something like this:

[/quote]

Yes I can do this

[quote user="SaligoBay"]

If you want to argue those two points separately, you split the quote up and re-tag it with the extra tags it needs.  You add your comments, and your post will look something like this:

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And this

 

[quote user="christine"]

I'll agree with that.  I don't like Marmite much either.

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And yes I can do that as well[:D]

But I had to type in Christine's quote because I could not get it to copy!!

How do you copy another quote?

This post has taken me ages to write beause I could not copy

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[quote user="SaligoBay"]

French people like Marmite.  Marmite is delicious.  [/quote ]

Downright lie.  What you should have said was:

[quote user="SaligoBay"]

French people like Marmot.  Marmot patĂ© is delicious.  [/quote ]

At least that would have kept us vaguely on subject.

EDIT:

Also has a rather nifty double Anglo-French meaning.

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[quote user="Cat"]

Good grief, if Saligo Bay doesn't understand it then no one will Norman [:P]

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Who is this paragon?

Someone who doesn't understand the use of 'hosts' to mean host nation, and who assumes that if one French person agrees with a British one on a particular issue that causes a problem as far as the rest of France is concerned.

I referred to a site (which nobody has commented on) which gives a pretty clear idea of the problem that this pest causes, and which outlines measures which can be taken against them in France, where France is the host nation and has the right to make the rules.

If Little Britons conflate British attude with "brains," and French practice with "something else but we don't/cant read/ cant understand the website so we can't say what it is"  we are getting close  to arrogant smugness.

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