And it’s sooo typical of their hyper-inflated personal and national egos:
They didn’t wonder for one minute why on earth foreign companies would pay up. For the honor or doing business with the greatest country on earth tm? Because they’d have no choice of other buyers, since no other countries has car / computer / whatever manufacturers who’d buy their products instead?

They. Are. So. Fucking. Insular.

Thank you.

Tbh I’d love a key, sounds like something I’d really enjoy!

Where I’m from, the hyperbole would go “You’ll get punched.”

You made me laugh in the middle of a pretty shitty day. Thank you.

It was common in France until my dad’s childhood, in the 60s. There were commercials for Ricoré (half coffee, half chickory) in the 80s. AFAIK, you can still buy it in all supermarkets.

Fwiw, it’s répertoire.

I mean, most languages are not written.