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Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Topic Options #127313 - 04/14/04 09:30 PM Re: Job's comforter belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888 Vous vous ecoutez trop! I agree with Bill's interpretation on this. "Vous vous écoutez trop!" means "you listen to yourself too much." If there really was an exclamation point it would mean "stop your bellyaching" With no exclamation mark, though, it would most likely mean "think of something else to get your mind off of your trouble" Top #127314 - 04/14/04 09:34 PM Re: Job's comforter belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888 Hi lastday, Yes écoutez has an accent aigue over the first E. It is conjugated with an "ez" at the end because it has to accord with the word "vous" J’écoute Tu écoutes Il écoute Nous écoutons Vous écoutez Ils écoutent Top #127315 - 04/15/04 05:48 AM Re: Job's comforter dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK It strikes me that he was, cynically, being told that he should be less gung-ho; not believe his own rousing speeches. "You listen to yourself too much, mate!" He was, we are told, a staff officer, not a front line officer leading the men. Part of his role would be to persuade others into danger, pour la glôire de la patrie, not to put himself at risk and become injured to the point where he was no longer of use. Without knowing more about this officer it is difficult to guess exactly what was meant, but this idea certainly appeals to me and makes sense of the apparently unnecessarily callous comment. It provides 'the something missing' that Dr Bill senses. Top Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8453 Members 16 Forums 13692 Topics 210100 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members zhangzhen, dene13, MariaAnastasia, MNPrasad, Krysto4 8453 Registered Users Who's Online 2 registered (endymion6, LukeJavan8), 55 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 99 wofahulicodoc 69 endymion6 68 jenny jenny 63 teepee 23 Rhubarb Commando 18 Faldage 13 tsuwm 9 anddrewlee 6 Jackie 4 June Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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