With its literal meaning, Victor is a good first name.

It being a last name is even better. People will call the household "the Victors". How brilliant.

It appears that Americans typically like talking away.

Male shrinking violets are everywhere, as well as so-called alpha males.

Notre Dame de Grâce.

Notre dame, de grâce!

Gare d'Autocars de Montréal.

It seems that so many Hong Kong people are so into the Callable Bull/Bear Contracts (a.k.a. CBBC).

A ticket to immense personal troubles.

American brands mass products: What you see is what get, nothing more, nothing less.

More and more young women unwisely follow the herd and wear like many a temptress.

Le français à ton goût.

À mon goût. À son goût.

Les devoirs de un homme...

"On loan" is distinct from "on hold".

Well, "Roussette au Miel" is not a dish made of dogfish, rock salmon, or flying fox. Instead, it is a type of donut sold at Tim Hortons.

"Toujours frais", pour moi, Tim Hortons.

For a piece of apparel, probably a small ticket with "designed in La Ville-Lumière" printed on it carries a little more glamour and merit than one with "designed in the City of Angels".

Regarding the latter city mentioned, Los Angeles' metropolitan area inhabits around 16 million people. It's huge, from the point of view of Montréal.

Maybe one day in the future, men will get their arms around what a woman's love is, while women will get their arms around what a marriage is and means.

Maybe. Just maybe.

When someone takes you for a ride, ...

I try to be obliging day in and day out.

But some people are just overly self-centered, or too sly, or both.

Android is androgynous.

Ballbusters browbeat their diffident male sidekicks.

Smug smiles behind the faces.

J doesn''t like cheesy products.

在非理工科的领域里，美国人知界多，知世少。

A phony is a phony.

Care for a whiskey?

Yeats is a good poet. And Yeti was a good disco song.

"Inter" is a better word than "bury". Isn't it?

For men, dress shoes are dress shoes.

If you are a stand-up guy...

What pairs of smooth women calves.

Sneakers sneak, because they have quiet shoe soles.

Runners run, because they have life purposes and rationality.

Some people imply that new age wimps are everywhere.

On the other side of the gender line, there are too many ballbusters, they say.

A traditional university campus can be downright poetic at certain moments.

I am dog-tired after a particularly long day.

Love it or loathe it, c'est la vie...

La confusion: "côte" et côté, côte-à-côte. Plus, "à côté" et "à-côté", côte-à-côte.

Est-ce que c'est jeux vidéos?

Le Devoir est un petit journal à Montréal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Le_Devoir

Bon matin, mes amis.

Une chemise et une valise.

一生要扶墙几回...

A satchel is not a suitcase.

自由社会多陷阱。

The patio season doesn't go hand in hand with me, who for one is chained to a computer chair. :-)

It's been reported that at least one militia in Ukraine has been formed and in training.

If the crisis in Ukraine continues, probably more and more militias will come into force in that country.

When some advertisers talk about "being edgy", they actually mean being racy, being risqué.

Probably many businesses are silently losing their shirts for the time being.

There are far too many crises in this globalized world. The lasting Great Recession (infamously a.k.a. "The Second Great Depression"), the food crisis, and the water crisis.

Now there's a global garbage crisis. (See http://globalnews.ca/news/952340/global-garbage-crisis-looming-say-experts/ .)

At the same time, it appears that the weather crisis is looming.

However, as individuals, we shouldn't have over-the-top worries, just do the best that we can.

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

The French word "fleuron" means jewel, or floret.

Chez Boss Gourmet. C'est le nom de un petit café.

C'est un bon nom.

Chez moi. Un bon pâté au poulet.

Un sac à dos et un sac à main.

Beside Chick Lit, there is Chick Flick.

For more and more people, entrepreneurship is somewhat a rebound from unfulfilling employment.

Un écolier avec un cœur clair.

A computer field bag is a laptop messenger bag.