"Mon Dieu, je sens que je faire faire la/ma moule toute la journée..." A
mussel always remains fastened to its rock or pile... so it means: "I will
stay in bed or at home all day long". The oyster woud do too ;-)!

Franck Frydman

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From: "Bert Bartleson" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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> Olivier Caro
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:12 AM
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> Subject: [CONCH-L] animal sounds : major upgrade and a mussel noises
>
> http://www.idscaro.net/sci/06_disc/200712/index.htm
>
> To keep this message shell related, let's learn something about how human
> beings of western France use their language modules.
> Here in Brittany, when people decide to stay couched a whole Sunday
> instead
> of thinking, eating or even watching TV, they say : oh my, I feel I'm
> gonna
> make my mussel all day long, yah... and they kill the phone, by
> decapitation
> or with a pillow.
>
> To make the mussel means to stay exactly like a mussel:
> 1 - in bed (mussel bed?)
> 2 - the mouth open
> 3 - the brain disconnected.
>
> Not so easy!
>
> In other countries, people name this activity Meditation.
>
> Olivier Caro
> The Lord of meditation
>
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