I did not say anything, the link in the message which you sent says it in
my place... ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Umit Kebapçi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] P.S. to Re: Re: [CONCH-L] animal sounds : major
upgrade and a mussel noises
> What did you say?
>
> http://elansoren.elanso.com/Print.asp?ArticleID=200721134810526
>
>
> Alıntı yapılıyor Franck Frydman <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> \"Faire l\' amour\" would most likely sound like \"Faire l\' amoor\" when
>> pronounced by Americans so I wonder what a mussel would do there... even
>> if
>> the French perfectly know what the word \"moule\" stands for in French
>> slang
>> ;-)!
>>
>> F.F.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: \"Olivier Caro\" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] animal sounds : major upgrade and a mussel
>> noises
>>
>>
>> > Oh my, I feel I\'m gonna make my mussel all day long
>> >
>> > \"Ouh je sens que je vais faire la moule toute la journée\"
>> > \"Hoo I feel I\'ll play the mussel all day\"
>> >
>> > Faire la moule : to play the mussel, to make one\'s mussel (to wear
>> the
>> > mussel\'s character? like in: \"this evening I play King Arthur etc\")
>> > In French, we say : \"here we are, he\'s making his little fool again\"
>> to
>> > say
>> > \"he plays the fool\" as an actor plays a character.
>> > Je vais faire la moule... Je fais la moule. Yesterday I made my
>> mussel,
>> > j\'ai
>> > fait la moule.
>> >
>> > A short story:
>> > When GI\'s landed in France to push Nazis back in their dens, the
>> first
>> > thing
>> > they did (after sharing chewing gums with natives), was to say, when
>> they
>> > encountered nice girls and other beautiful ladies: \"Bonjour
>> Mademoiselle,
>> > voulez-vous faire l\'amour avec moi ?\" (that\'s what women say, OK?
>> let\'s
>> > guess we can trust them)
>> > But when a pure yankee articulates such a sentence with a chewing-gum
>> in
>> > the
>> > mouth, it sounds very, very different; and a young (and, certainly,
>> > beautiful) girl from Brittany was more than surprised by what
>> requested a
>> > large and glorious sergeant: \"Bonjour Mademoiselle, voulez-vous faire
>> la
>> > moule avec moi ?\"
>> > \"Ah, baa, ehmmm... why not ?\" she answered, believing the guy had in
>> mind
>> > just a little nap, and only that (hmmm... Frenchies say people of far
>> west
>> > Brittany are not the most powerful brains of kingdom Animalia...
>> \"just
>> > upon
>> > medusas\", they add... \"maybe\" they re-add). Of course, the afternoon
>> > became
>> > something more agitated that expected.
>> > This story took place somewhere between Saint-Malo and Rennes, on the
>> > westernmost part of Patton\'s Liberty Road (august 44).
>> >
>> > After what, when the young lady\'s boyfriend learned what happened, he
>> > said,
>> > quite angry : \"Mussel napping, eh ? All the afternoon ? Do you think
>> I\'m a
>> > Whelk?\"
>> > \"A whelk\" refers to Buccinum undatum, the animal supposed to be more
>> than
>> > stupid. Vernacular name: the \"Bulot\".
>> > \"Ah, quel bulot! \" \"Ah, what a %$£##!\"
>> > \"You idiot! This was not a nap he asked for!\" ---> \"Eh bulot !
>> > C\'était
>> pas
>> > une sieste qu\'il demandait !\"
>> >
>> > Olivier Caro
>> >
>> > ...I don\'t remember if I answered your question!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: \"Bert Bartleson\" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:10 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] animal sounds : major upgrade and a mussel
>> noises
>> >
>> >
>> >> Bonjour Olivier, I am enjoying your animal sounds in different
>> languages
>> >> page. Thank you for sharing it. But the reason I\'m writing is to
>> ask
>> >> you
>> >> how you would say in French: \"Oh my, I feel I\'m gonna make my mussel
>> all
>> > day
>> >> long\". I\'m guessing that it is a wonderful idiom that I would like
>> to
>> >> learn. Je vous remercie encore. Bert Bartleson
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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