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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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