I haven't taken French since Grade Ten, but my understanding is that most of the differences between Quebec French and French French are about everyday and idiomatic language and accents. I'm pretty sure the grammar and tenses are similar. But my knowledge of French tenses past the basic ones is almost nil.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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Sue - Mar 04, 2008 6:04:02 am PST #8630 of 9843
hip deep in pie
Dana - Mar 04, 2008 6:09:49 am PST #8631 of 9843
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I don't know anything about Quebecois, but I believe there are some tense differences in Cajun French.
JZ - Mar 04, 2008 8:09:06 am PST #8632 of 9843
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
You might try pinging megan walker about this -- granted, her French is actual France French, but she is deeply fluent, well-traveled, knows people from practically everywhere on the planet, and works for a textbook publisher, so even if it falls outside her own French genius she might at least know where some good resources are.
Hil R. - Mar 04, 2008 7:38:25 pm PST #8633 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, Cajun French has some different stuff going on with conjugation, but I couldn't really explain what was different, just that it wasn't the way I learned it.
Kevin - Mar 23, 2008 7:14:54 am PDT #8634 of 9843
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
So, do any of our UKers watch Skins at all?
Tell me somebody does.... It's excellent.
Fiona - Mar 23, 2008 10:24:35 pm PDT #8635 of 9843
I would... but I don't get C4 (long story).
Fay - May 04, 2008 3:20:26 pm PDT #8636 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Bloody hell, London. How can you have elected Boris Johnson as mayor?
eta for benefit of un-un-Americans: afaik, he's what you'd get if you crossed George Bush with Lucius Malfoy. Famous for his dishevelled, hearty, hail-fellow-well-met public school boy manners, for his blonder-than-blond chaos of hair, for appearing on the TV show Have I Got News For You in the capacity of editor of the v. right wing Spectator newspaper, for comparing gay marriage to bestiality, and for referring to Africans as 'Piccaninnies with watermelon smiles'.
Yep. One of our best and brightest all right. Apparently he's apologised for the piccaninnies with watermelon smiles thing, and assured everyone that he hates racism. So that must be okay then.
sinks head in hands.
Atropa - May 04, 2008 7:17:00 pm PDT #8637 of 9843
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
So, I don't suppose any UK-type people would be willing to go check out the closest Miss Selfridge store to them and see if this jacket is available in a size 14? [link]
Or, as an even longer shot, keep an eye open at thrift or charity shops in case one of these jackets turns up in a size 14? [link]
Jars - May 20, 2008 10:14:55 am PDT #8638 of 9843
Anybody else watching the first Eurovision semi-final? So far, Montenegro and Israel have had very good looking young men.
Jars - May 20, 2008 10:33:17 am PDT #8639 of 9843
Azerbaijan has gay angels! And a goth boy! I love the Eurovision!