très bien

EDIT: This article was originally from 2015, my mistake in posting it now.

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Guy made it his mission to beat the French using their own language while still refusing to speak it.

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I can’t think of anything more French!

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Nigel Richards. Check out Will Anderson’s youtube channel, he covers pro scrabble matches in the style of chess commentary, and he has a lot of videos featuring Nigel

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I thought this sounded familiar. The article is from 2015!

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Wow, my error not seeing the article date, sorry about that. It popped up on my feed this am. Better look more carefully in the future.

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Haha all good, an interesting story none the less. It’s been over 9 years, think he speaks French yet?

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He didn’t need to in order to win the Scrabble and indeed, speaking a foreign language needs a lot more than memorising a dictionary, though that in itself was a massive accomplishment.

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Searle would say he’s brainless.

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Foux du fa fa fa fa

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