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I don't know where/what cesmes is, but if it is anywhere in France, it seems that she's absolutely right. So many people I know were snubbed, or told to speak "proper" French while on vacation in France or by French people here on vacation.
One guy, here on a work visa, once told me, "Your language is so funny. It's so uneducated." and proceeded to say "ouain, ouain" several times and laughing to himself. (ouain is the French equivalent of "yup") And could you believe he was trying to pick me up?
On a separate note...Maxq, your French is always written so well. You have a phenomenal memory to remember all the noun orientations (male/female) accents and verb conjugations. (Your teacher must have been very good.)
Zm - sorry, I was not ignoring you. I just scooted down to the bottom of the thread to answer Maverick.
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I don't know where/what cesmes is,
You don't watch The Simpsons? C.E.S.M, plus "es" for pluralisation. Or, more accurately, C-E.S.M.
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I don't know where/what cesmes is Ditto.
(ouain is the French equivalent of "yup") What about ouais, please? The lady teaching our little group keeps saying oo-eye, and finally wrote it on the board as ouais.
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Jackie, ouais is to ouain what ya is to yup - it's all lazy talking really.
Max, I very rarely watch the Simpsons. I have to admit that your explanation is whooshing right over my head.
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Max, I very rarely watch the Simpsons. I have to admit that your explanation is whooshing right over my head.
Voici:
http://www.clayloomis.com/simp63e.wav
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Apparently Mr Loomis doesn't like it when folks link to his page from a bulletin board. I got a stern "error" message.
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max, ERROR: 403 FORBIDDEN - YOU CAN'T DO THAT! CLAY'S SOUND EMPORIUM http://www.clayloomis.comYou have to be AT the above Web site to play/download my sounds. Feel free to drop by and take all you like. edit: hi bel!
Last edited by tsuwm; 02/05/06 07:42 PM.
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Allo tsuwm, two kisses (bec-bec) for the link.
I did go to that page but there are a slew of bites and none had simp63 that Max referred to.
Poor Max, it's like when you have to explain a joke.
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Ha. Finally got to the thing. Pressed the button and got... Windows Media Player cannot connect to the server. The server name might not be correct, the server might not be available, or your proxy settings might not be correct. The Fates decidedly do not want me to know what-of you speak Max. 
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