French in France - "Tu" or "Vous"?

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Oct 8th, 2012 | 09:50 AM

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PalenQ

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Must be what Pal's "French son" uses>

ah for snarky folks like St Cirq they need another form of vous or tu - something meaning unpolite and rude. Peut-etre vutu?

Oct 8th, 2012 | 10:47 AM

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Michael

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e.e. cummings in 1922? Is its origin in doughboy French?

PalenQ,

Your French is not good enough for satire in that language. It simply comes out as something that someone who only knows the conjugation of regular "er" verbs to the exclusion of any other class of verbs.

Oct 8th, 2012 | 11:00 AM

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Michael

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change "something that someone" to "something from someone"

Oct 8th, 2012 | 12:03 PM

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PalenQ

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Michael - so you think I know more than I understand. I agree.

Now what form of tu/vous should I address snarky folks like St Cirq with - vous is just too polite for that ilk. Suggestions?

Oct 8th, 2012 | 12:21 PM

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Michael

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PalenQ,

You misunderstood my comment.

"Vous" can be dripping with sarcasm when used in a properly constructed phrase. But I would not try it if I were asking someone else for suggestions.

Oct 9th, 2012 | 10:43 AM

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annhig

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I don't know why there's all the fuss about the lyric "voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?"

"veux-tu coucher avec moi, ce soir?" simply doesn't scan with the melody.

Oct 10th, 2012 | 06:15 AM

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Nikki

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Lady Marmalade was written about New Orleans. What were the GI's doing there?

Oct 10th, 2012 | 09:25 AM

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kerouac

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Perhaps the question was about group rates, in which "vous" would be perfectly appropriate.

Oct 10th, 2012 | 11:42 AM

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Carlux

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Love it!

Oct 10th, 2012 | 12:32 PM

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PalenQ

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touez-tous voulez-vous couchez avec les trois?

Oui, bien sur!

Oct 12th, 2012 | 07:33 AM

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Carlux

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As long as you don't expect a French person to understand what you are asking.

Oct 12th, 2012 | 09:26 AM

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PalenQ

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funny my French son said it was Academy of France level grammar?

Oct 12th, 2012 | 11:17 AM

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Michael

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People who write fractured French on their own should not try to joke in fractured French.

<i>ca va bien? Tu m'attendra au Gare de Dijon cet Sett 31em, comme le dernier fois? a midi? Merci, encore. Salut.</i>

Oct 12th, 2012 | 11:20 AM

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PalenQ

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young French folks use verlan where words I believe are spelt backwards to flummox older folk who think they are talking in tongues perhaps.

http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/verlan.htm