ShmoopTube

00:00

Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too

00:05

Sure brought to you by ze french way would have

00:09

preferred if they brought a nice bag adding some cheese

00:11

but well we'll take this instead Okay look the following

00:13

passage right there frenchman visits england and he's in the

00:16

arts They got a lot of free english in their

00:19

french english unclench All right here's our question what most

00:24

accurately describes the effect The author cheese by including several

00:27

french expressions in paragraph two and here are potential answers

00:31

and you ve bloody fran's right that's art in order

00:35

to answer a question we the readers need to look

00:37

for the message that isn't actually written on the page

00:40

Sometimes this is called reading between the lines but sometimes

00:44

it's just sneaky spy's using invisible ink as well So

00:48

all right so let's assume it's the former before we

00:50

read the lines let's tackle the easy answers first starting

00:53

with a they say that the author's use of french

00:56

is done just to impress others That well that just

00:58

doesn't make any sense that no other point this reading

01:00

because she seemed concerned about what her readers think of

01:03

Her so with that in mind answer is a firm

01:05

no while we're at it answer dea said then collect

01:09

if she's trying to flatter her british readers by assuming

01:12

they know french why would she then include the english

01:14

translations Short answer She wouldn't long answer she would not

01:18

So why would the author include those phrases Well the

01:21

author's entire point with this paragraph is illustrate that although

01:23

the english and the french are very different they're still

01:26

able to respect each other despite those defaults says the

01:30

other states that a frenchman might be boarded english state

01:33

dinners and then an englishman might find french humor a

01:35

bit stale but in the end they can agree to

01:38

disagree without arguing over whose culture is better So it

01:42

sounds like the author is suggesting that the french and

01:44

english get along quite well So does that mean answer

01:46

b is correct Well no not necessarily That point would

01:50

be clear in this paragraph even without the french phrases

01:53

so answer b is probably not what the other was

01:55

after when she decided to speak french with you off

01:57

it was actually shooting for was a subtle way to

01:59

x presto her readers seeing we brits even respect french

02:03

culture even to learn a bit of the language Look

02:07

wessel who she probably knew him Avoid saying the red

02:10

fish though Well what the other is right In between

02:13

the lines is her belief that americans would never bother

02:15

to do that out of a lack of respect other

02:18

cultures the french phrases air used to support the author's

02:21

overall point that americans think too much of their own

02:24

culture and not enough of everyone else's come to think

02:28

of it well that sounds a lot like answer c

02:30

which an american would say is ridiculous They love french

02:33

culture the fries the toast the towers live apostle who's 00:02:38.66 --> [endTime] maybe it's a good point

Full Transcript