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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 26, 2009 15:47:27 GMT 1
A friend on facebook just told me he got dumped. I said I was sorry to hear it and gave some sympathy. His response was 'Ce la vie'.
It is all I can do not to post back telling him that it is spelled c'est. All I can do. Seriously. This is becoming a serious character flaw.
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Post by Rascarin on Oct 26, 2009 16:53:44 GMT 1
Deep breaths, Buchy. Try not to think about it.
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Post by Knightfall on Oct 26, 2009 19:37:30 GMT 1
That's fairly badass (as opposed to jackass) to be able to correct someone on their French spelling. I don't know any part of the language. Don't worry about it, though. It's all good. You're gonna make some grammar school proud one day.
Que sera, sera.
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Post by Zarsthor on Oct 26, 2009 23:47:38 GMT 1
It wasn't the worse butchery of french I've ever seen. Buch you would have been fantastic at my high school. I would of enjoyed those days far more with you sitting in the class correcting the teachers. We had some very uneducated teachers. This one time we did a spelling test and Chocolate was put in there. I spelt it Chocolate. The teacher was doing on of her make an example of moments and told me Chocolate was spelt Chocalat. She made me write it out on the board 10 times. You'd make a seriously good English teacher Buch.
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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 27, 2009 0:52:14 GMT 1
I'd be a terrible teacher - I'm panicky and I hate children. But thanks.
I would enjoy talking about language at work though. And I love French. I speak almost none of it. But I think it's extremely pretty.
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Post by Zarsthor on Oct 27, 2009 9:30:08 GMT 1
I'm told when I speak french my accent goes funny. It was my first language but my father was a nazi bastard and banned it being spoken in the house when I reached school age. He said he couldn't stand not knowing what the women in the house were saying about him. Now I just speak very broken french ebcause its so rusty. We still use certain words and phrases in my mothers house hold. Like I never call my mother 'Mum' or 'Mother' unless I'm being comical with her, I use the french version. I also find it difficult to say 'excuse me' in english all the time. It slips back and forth but at home its always french. I also call some frutis and veg by there french names. Its an odd thing but I don't generally speak any french around daniel here. I used to but he gets frustrated at me. Says he doesn't know what I'm talking about and that it makes him feel ... small. So I have to put on my public voice around him. Of course I completely ignore him at my mothers. He's gotten sued to the fact he won't always understand what we are saying.
Oh amusing story. At high school I had a french teacher that was really annoying. She taught us text book french which is not the same as spoken french at all. Its like hearing someone say to you "Hello. I am Zars. I am 22. I go the cinema. I like carrots." Yeah... you sound a little special ed. Anyway, it was the final exam for french. We had to verballs answer questions the teacher asked whilst she recorded us. It had been a long day filled with mathematic exams and I was already hot and bothered. She started askign me very silly questions like "How are you? Are you going on holiday?" and I broke out into this long rant about how much I disliked her and what an appauling state the education system was for teaching us such bull in french class. She had no idea what I said. I even ended on the note of callign ehr a stupid cow and she still couldn't figure out what I said. Then of course the tape got sent off to the examine board and I enjoyed the moment where I got to wipe the smirk off of her face. She'd been telling me for 2 years I was going to fail french. I walked away with the highest mark in the class all due to that tape getting a perfect.
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