The French are bizarre

My roommate, years ago, went to France for a period of time that I gather was months if not years, and every now and then she tells me weird little stories about what it was like over there. Well this latest one is a doozy. Apparently, the most offensive thing you can do in France is say the proper names of animals. Like, you can't even tell your kid the names of the animals in the zoo! How the bleeding fuck do the kids learn what the animals are called???

Seriously, that is the stupidest and most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of! I mean really, I thought the stupidest and most ridiculous thing ever was when I found out that you can get arrested in the U.S. for teaching your kids the proper names of certain body parts (no, Billy, you have to call it a thingy or a wiener, not a penis. And Jane, you can't call your girly thing a vagina, mommy could go to prison if you do), but... Well, okay, that's still the stupidest and most ridiculous thing ever, but the thing with the French being offended by words like "tigre" is second on the list.