You mean your drinking classes?

Oh, my God, I wish. Stiff drinks would have improved those classes so much.

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.

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.

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"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.

Merciful HEAVEN, that's a cast. De Niro, Bates, Keitel, Byrne... holy Hannah.

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.

Matthew Fox is on Ellen right now. AIFG

Toast and jam to note that Pierce Brosnan was also on Ellen so all in all a fine morning show.

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

Only Kate, Jack and Charlie saw what the invisimechasaur was capable of (mauling the pilot.)

In the second episode after Sawyer has killed the polar bear Boone asks “Is that what killed the pilot?” Boone should think that the pilot was already dead because Jack, Kate & Charlie said there were no surviviors at the cockpit. How can he assume the pilot was killed after the crash by some “animal” when no one told him?

Only Locke knows about the fact the island cured his paraplegia.

What about when Locke says to Walt – “Do you want to know a secret?” Is it possible he told Walt?