The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City

If there's a more complicated way to do something, the French will find it.

I mean, in all honesty, how can one begin to master any language that's so difficult, it lists six different ways to say "because"? Puisque, comme, a cause de, car, grace a, and a force de all mean "because." The difference between them comes down to because of what?

When people ask, "How long did it take you to become fluent in French?" I respond, "Become fluent? Even the French aren't fluent in French." To prove it, there's an annual Dicos d'Or, a dictation contest where French people compete against each other to see who can best comprehend and write down what's spoken to them-in their own language!