27-09-2010, 23:06
France's ex-justice minister Rachida Dati told Canal Plus: "I see some [foreign investment funds] looking for returns of 20 or 25% at a time when fellatio is close to zero."
She mixed up the words "fellatio" and "inflation" - which sound similar in French - during a TV interview.
Within hours, the video was an internet hit on websites such as YouTube.
Ms Dati, now a Euro MP, later laughed off the whole episode saying she had spoken too quickly. (A slip of the tongue perhaps)
Ms Dati also said she was happy to have provided some entertainment.
The French word for fellatio is "fellation", which sounds similar to the word "inflation".
Ms Dati left the government last year amid criticism of her management style, and gossip about her clothes and love life. She is now an MEP and serves as mayor of Paris's seventh arrondissement.
Only the French would make economics sound like sex.
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She mixed up the words "fellatio" and "inflation" - which sound similar in French - during a TV interview.
Within hours, the video was an internet hit on websites such as YouTube.
Ms Dati, now a Euro MP, later laughed off the whole episode saying she had spoken too quickly. (A slip of the tongue perhaps)
Ms Dati also said she was happy to have provided some entertainment.
The French word for fellatio is "fellation", which sounds similar to the word "inflation".
Ms Dati left the government last year amid criticism of her management style, and gossip about her clothes and love life. She is now an MEP and serves as mayor of Paris's seventh arrondissement.
Only the French would make economics sound like sex.
BBC News
Lapsus: Dati confond "inflation" et... "fellation"
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