Scuttlebutt French - Help req

[GazzaUK]

'Avez vous une cuppa?

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[jhr]

One absolutely essential phrase which you will need for use in Bars and Restaurants:

"Notre ami, Monsieur TwisterKen, va payer".

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho

 

[suse]

"Que scais-je?" - by line of the 16th century philosopher Montaigne

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[mirabriani]

Additionally the "Entente Cordiale" is stimulated by the odd throwaway remark like
"Let me think, When did you last win a war?"

Or even "Did it take a week or a month for the Germans to conquer France?

Snowleopard will be wondering if he made the right decision.
Briani

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[Sybarite]

Education is a progressive discovery of my own ignorance which, to date, is encyclopaedic....

John

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[Gunfleet]

Solid advice, though I was once knocked of my motorbike in front of a Gendarme. When I got up he asked me where I was from, apparently I was swearing very fluently in French... completely unconscious of the fact!

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[peterb]

Found in my eight year old daughter's French vocabulary note book:

"Je parle Francais comme une vache Espagnole"

Translated as "I don't speak French very well".

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[Nickel]

B*****x! Learn some histoire!

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Being paranoid simply means - having all the facts.

 

[sailorman]

Belgian, this one me thinks.
Ope use nav is better than your geography.
Have a great trip & may join you some time
roger

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[TheBoatman]

Brian
Your sailing close hauled here, the last time a thread like this appeared Kim kicked my post and in fact the whole thread into touch.

I need say no more?

signed
Francophobe

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[BrendanS]

Err. I remember that thread, it was a little more close hauled than this one, which is in good spirit.

<hr width=100% size=1>Me transmitte sursum, caledoni

 

[Ships_Cat]

Don't confuse them by using terms from a third language. Was with a friend who was most surprised to find that his ordered cappuccino turned up as a cuppachina tea.

John

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[mirabriani]

Sorry
OTT
Some of my best friends speak French
Briani

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[snowleopard]

ok brian, you're in charge of shoreside communication. after the last fiasco where the supermarket manager in lezardrieux told us it would cost 70 euros to cart our wine to the boat, a fluent speaker of abusive french will be very useful.

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[USM]

I GOT ANOTHER ONE:
"Tonerre de Brest"


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[jimi]

"Common Cava." .. Cheap spanish wine





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[robp]

Like a mate when we were in a Frankfurt exhibition said;
"Dry martini bitte".
Barman plonks down three glasses of a pinkish coloured aperitif!

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[Graham_Wright]

In the charcuterie, "Avez vous du boeuf anglais" generally starts a genial conversation.

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[jhr]

....whereas "avez-vous d'agneau Anglais" often starts a blazing fire........

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho

 

[MrG]

This has been so useful, I'm grateful to all contributors, I'm now fully prepared for the trip and know I will mingle with ease in La Belle France...

<hr width=100% size=1><font color=blue>Regards Mark