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« Reply #4711 on: 17:17:31, 15-09-2008 » |
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On a similar note, an Australian friend of mine who lives in Paris likes to exclaim "fils de plage!"
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« Reply #4712 on: 17:20:02, 15-09-2008 » |
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Was I then the only one who thought the word to be pronounced "picture-skew"? My grandma used to say 'Oh, that's very picture-square'!  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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My parents, both French speakers, used to refer to thin magpies at Christmas (mince pies), and with our street-beard we would have coutarde (cf. moutarde). There were numerous other examples of silly French jokes.
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« Reply #4714 on: 17:48:08, 15-09-2008 » |
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One of the chaps in our office came to visit in Paris a little while back and at one poitn exclaimed "On y va qui mal y pense!". Oh how we laughed.
(Funny thing is, my better half didn't recognise the phrase he was alluding to. It seems to have disappeared from la francophonie...)
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« Reply #4715 on: 18:43:49, 15-09-2008 » |
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My mum used to say 'Are you talking to me , or the bobby on the townhall square?' ( When I talked too loudly!)
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« Reply #4716 on: 22:47:15, 15-09-2008 » |
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I like Baz's new avatar and motto.
Is there any particular reason?
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I like Baz's new avatar and motto.
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Because you're soft on him and want to marry him? But tough: I think he's taken. |
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« Reply #4718 on: 23:04:41, 15-09-2008 » |
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I like Baz's new avatar and motto.
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« Reply #4719 on: 23:29:56, 15-09-2008 » |
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...well that was a conversation stopper!
("When life's path is steep remember to keep your mind even")
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« Reply #4720 on: 23:33:34, 15-09-2008 » |
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Especially while boldly going whither no man has gone before.
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« Reply #4721 on: 23:34:51, 15-09-2008 » |
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Especially while boldly going whither no man has gone before.
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« Reply #4722 on: 23:37:01, 15-09-2008 » |
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Except it's just 'where no one has gone before' isn't it?
I'm afraid I stumbled on that little Horatian line. I think I translated most of it but my brain was obviously not level enough to assemble a meaning.
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« Reply #4723 on: 23:55:25, 15-09-2008 » |
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Except it's just 'where no one has gone before' isn't it?
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« Reply #4724 on: 00:09:38, 16-09-2008 » |
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Shouldn't be that difficult to insert a audacter somewhere, though, surely?
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