Les magazines français

It’s fun to read French magazines. It helps for learning vocabulary and slang and about contemporary culture in general, but it is also entertaining.

There was one humorous article I read recently called, “14 bonnes raisons de plaquer son regime,” which essentially means 14 good reasons to quit your diet. It was especially refreshing because of the way I’ve been eating here (I probably eat more carbs in a day than all of Hollywood).

Reason #1 was good: “Vous avez faim.” (You are hungry). So basic, but so ignored (at least in L.A., and hence why I love Paris).

But my favorite was reason #11: “Petite démonstration pratique: quand on maigrit, il faut racheter des vêtements. Quand on rachète des vêtements, on devient très pauvre. Quand on est très pauvre, on ne peut plus payer sa facture de téléphone et on perd ses amis. Résultat, quand on maigrit, on perd ses amis.”
(Little practical demonstration: When you lose weight, you have to buy new clothes. When you buy new clothes, you become very poor. When you are very poor, you can’t pay your telephone bill and so you lose your friends. Result: when you lose weight, you lose your friends.)

Bien-sûr, only the French would use such round-about but still logical reasoning.