Or, I could be be wrong, 'cause have I mentioned it having been really really long since my French classes?
You mean your drinking classes?
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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Polter-Cow - Nov 15, 2004 3:23:48 pm PST #2564 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Vonnie K - Nov 15, 2004 3:29:50 pm PST #2565 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
You mean your drinking classes?
Oh, my God, I wish. Stiff drinks would have improved those classes so much.
Rick - Nov 15, 2004 5:06:32 pm PST #2566 of 10000
When I was in the second grade, my school district decided to start French classes in the second grade so we would all grow up speaking fluent French. Unfortunately, our teacher was not very good with kids, and we were not, in fact, very good kids. As a result, the only French I can remember is "Ferme la bouche!" The experiment only lasted one year.
That small amount of French did prove useful last summer when I was in France for a couple of weeks. The popular phrase at the time was "Ferme la Bush!" and I understood the joke.
Dana - Nov 15, 2004 5:44:09 pm PST #2567 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Was it Hellish who coined "Wesley delenda est"?
That was Floyd Elliot, and it was during the period of Season 1 Angel when Wesley was bumbling and before he became cool through torture.
Sophie Max - Nov 15, 2004 6:12:46 pm PST #2568 of 10000
delurk
"Il eux a tue," because "eux" is the personal pronoun. If you were having a conversation and it was already understood that the "les" referred to people you would use that, if not I think you would use "eux."
"Il eux a tue" is not a coherent french sentence. I think the person is thinking of "il leurs a tue", (although I'm not entirely sure there should be an "s" at the end of leurs.)
And what Vonnie K. said back there - eux and les and leurs are different kinds of pronouns, which my grammar is not up to explaining, but "eux" would not go in that place in that sentence.
All that to say...uh, nothing much, really. Oh yeah, the distinction between "les" being generic, and "leurs" being specifically people, does hold up. Interesting thought.
Betsy HP - Nov 15, 2004 6:25:21 pm PST #2569 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Merciful HEAVEN, that's a cast. De Niro, Bates, Keitel, Byrne... holy Hannah.
Vonnie K - Nov 15, 2004 8:25:53 pm PST #2570 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oh, right! Leurs. I'd forgotten about that pesky possessive pronoun that sometimes masquerades as something else. Sneeeeaky.
This show has thus far had me looking up the triangulation method, shoulder reduction techniques, and now, French grammar. It's actually, like, work, trying to keep up with the damn show.
Laura - Nov 16, 2004 5:50:08 am PST #2571 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Matthew Fox is on Ellen right now. AIFG
Laura - Nov 16, 2004 6:01:31 am PST #2572 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Toast and jam to note that Pierce Brosnan was also on Ellen so all in all a fine morning show.
megan walker - Nov 16, 2004 6:26:35 am PST #2573 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
French grammar, yeah!
To follow up with more: Vonnie your examples are spot on (if only my students grasped things that well). BTW, "les" is for direct objects while "leur" is used for indirect objects (Il les a tués, Il leur a parlé). Both can refer to people or things.
Thus endeth the lesson.
t re-lurking and off to class