Author Topic: "I speak a foreign language." How do you respond? (Read 10003 times)

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #25 on:** October 20, 2004, 03:16:00 PM »

My family is from Texas and grew pecans for a while, and they have always been pi-KAWNs. Actually, the hickest of the cousins call them KAWNs.

"Ah got a sack uh kawns here for ye"

pooka · « **Reply #26 on:** October 20, 2004, 04:49:16 PM »

So is cacahuettes not french? Do I lose my french points? All I know is my sister set the word to music. It could easily have been the spanish word.

Jonathon · « **Reply #27 on:** October 20, 2004, 05:50:43 PM »

According to BabelFish, the French word for peanut is arachide.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #28 on:** October 20, 2004, 08:30:02 PM »

Cacahuètes is French... pronounced the same way. You just misspelled it.

And JB, arachide is the peanut plant, and can also mean the nuts, though the salted, toasty nuts for eating are cacahuètes.

Anna · « **Reply #29 on:** October 21, 2004, 09:06:17 AM »

Babelfish isn't always the good answer to your foreign languages questions

People would look at you in a weird way if you asked "Puis-je avoir des arachides, s'il vous plait".

Jonathon · « **Reply #30 on:** October 21, 2004, 09:17:09 AM »

Tricksy Babelfish!

Sheila · « **Reply #31 on:** October 21, 2004, 09:30:31 AM »

Bill also suffered through coach teachers. His school fired a good history teacher because he was a bad football coach and hired a good coach who taught art, though I feel like I'm misleading you by phrasing that in a way that implies he actually did anything. The replacement history teacher, who coached baseball if I recall correctly, argued that the 2 bombs were fat man and fat boy. Citing the text did not disuade him. Don't even ask about Joe Navark.

If you two ever do meet, I highly recommend trading coach teacher stories to get past the introverted interface he presents.

TheTick · « **Reply #32 on:** October 21, 2004, 09:37:59 AM »

I had a coach teacher that did the 'family life aka sex ed' in my health class. Fun times that.

Porter · « **Reply #33 on:** October 21, 2004, 10:11:03 AM »

Crappy coach teachers I've had (I've never had a good one):

6th grade science
7th grade science
7th grade history
8th grade science
11th grade history
12th grade psych

I have a lot of crappy coach stories I could tell.

But I won't.

At least not now.

Jonathon · « **Reply #34 on:** October 21, 2004, 10:29:22 AM »

I've had a surprising number of good coach teachers. One of my favorite teachers was my calculus teacher in twelfth grade, and he was a tennis coach. But it seems to me that there's a big difference between coaches who are also teachers and teachers who are also coaches. A few of mine were the former, but I think most were the latter.

Sheila · « **Reply #35 on:** October 21, 2004, 10:32:21 AM »

Not one of you has laughed at "Joe Navark." Come on people, that's Georging hilarious.

Jonathon · « **Reply #36 on:** October 21, 2004, 10:38:34 AM »

So what's up with Joe Navark?

Sheila · « **Reply #37 on:** October 21, 2004, 10:42:24 AM »

He was inspired by God to lead French troops. Don't you know anything about history?

:ph34r:

Jonathon · « **Reply #38 on:** October 21, 2004, 10:43:33 AM »

Apparently not.

Brinestone · « **Reply #39 on:** October 21, 2004, 10:53:32 AM »

I had to say it out loud before I got it, celia. I'm going to have to research this guy; he sounds cool.

Anna · « **Reply #40 on:** October 21, 2004, 11:36:43 AM »

I sure never heard about this guy. Canadian maybe ?

Jonathon · « **Reply #41 on:** October 21, 2004, 12:24:36 PM »

What, they don't teach you history in France?

Anna · « **Reply #42 on:** October 21, 2004, 01:00:49 PM »

Of course they do. I work in a school, so I should know ! But obviously, they don't teach you French. We learn French when we're babies !

Jonathon · « **Reply #43 on:** October 21, 2004, 02:12:24 PM »

I'm just teasing you.

Joe Navark = Joan of Arc = Jeanne d'Arc

Porter · « **Reply #44 on:** October 21, 2004, 04:27:44 PM »

Joe Nevark is my new alias that I'm using whenever I wear my armor.

sarcasticmuppet · « **Reply #45 on:** October 21, 2004, 06:11:09 PM »

I assume it's a nametag sort of alias rather than a spoken one.

Anna · « **Reply #46 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:53:09 AM »

We call her "Jeanne d'Arc", which sounds a lot different, that must be why I didn't realize the trick

But that's no excuse because I heard how English speaker name her in a Leonard Cohen's song.

imogen · « **Reply #47 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:49:34 AM »

I didn't get it either, Anna.

I think that may because when I read words I pronounce them in my head in a crazy-Imogen way that only rarely gets spoken.

And I say PEE-CAN. And AH-MOND. And I love love love French culture.

imogen · « **Reply #48 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:51:53 AM »

Actually, on reflection it's more like Ah-MUND.

I'd probably be able to write it more accurately if I actually knew the whole capital/emphasis deal.

Noemon · « **Reply #49 on:** November 14, 2004, 09:16:15 AM »

AHLmund

puhKHAN