Have you made a social faux pas, Captain?» she discreetly enquired

Have you made a social faux pas, Captain?» she discreetly enquired. «No, I have not made a social fart-pants!» pleaded the Badgerman. «Captain Ramshackle!» cried Alice. «One should not say such things!» «You said it first!» «I did not! I said faux pas! It's quite different; why, it's French, for one thing! Therefore it's much more polite!» Alice was here following her Great Aunt's instructions in etiquette. (Great Uncle Mortimer did eat an awful amount of radishes, remember?)

Джефф Нун, Автоматическая Алиса