Hoping I’m not like a Spanish cow

An email list to which I subscribe to help my (currently stalled) study of the French language this morning informed me of a new (to me) idiomatic phrase: parler le français comme une vache espagnole (speak French like a Spanish cow).

Well I hope I don’t, quite, although on a bad day I wouldn’t guarantee it – perhaps like an intelligent talking horse.

Must be a gift to cartoonists…

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