For those interested in French slang:
http://www.amazon.com/Dictionnaire-Bilingue-DAujourdHui-Bilingual-Dictionary/dp/2266139738/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1197626445&sr=11-1
or:nhttp://www.amazon.fr/Dictionnaire-bilingue-largot-daujourdhui-Fran%C3%A7ois/dp/2266139738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197626366&sr=1-1.
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From: "Franck Frydman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 10:51 AM
Subject: [CONCH-L] P.S. to Re: Re: [CONCH-L] animal sounds : major upgrade
and a mussel noises
> "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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