Oh, yeah...there's also that possibility! But it just occurred to me to wonder how many times he's already told some girl how handsome (in a male way) she is.
Lol! See! And they were still swept off their feet by it! So what's the feminine form in this case? Belle perhaps? _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Favorite languages = English/Spanish
Followed by Italian/French/Dutch
Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject:
Porthos wrote:
I think I'm still gonna say "beau". It just rolls of the tounge better, and they won't know the difference anyway!
I assume you discreetly verify their ignorance of the language before you begin.
If you don't like the sound of "belle", maybe you'd prefer "jolie" (pretty). But if the girl doesn't like Angelina, it might be a bad choice. But who am I to suggest things to whisper? The francophones should be able to give you much better suggestions.
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I just try to flavor the speech with as many French 'r's as possible. The French 'r' is just so sexy.
In that case, how about something along the lines of "Je te ferai ronronner." (Help me out here, Pauline, Greg, Fab, etc.)
So you tell her that you like her body, and then you say that you're sexy? And then whose hair are you talking about
Yes, simply because I want to say "Je suis", because it sounds sexy. It doesn't have to make any sense. That's what's so funny. _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Favorite languages = English/Spanish
Followed by Italian/French/Dutch
Lol, reminds me of when my boyfriend was talking to me in German whilst he was, um... — I absolutely loved it.
What a strange guy you are, Benjamin... Speaking German whilst planting onions...Good Gracious...
De gustibus non est disputandum after all...I don't know if you say it in English (meaning auf English and not auf Latein in an English-speaking environment), so I'm not trying to word it in English. _________________ Az alvástól megéhezem. Az evéstől elálmosodom. Az élet szép.
LOL!! porthos & benjamin Maybe I must talk to Pascal in a foreign language !!! he can speak Latin, antique greek, english and bit german. I think that Dutch is absolutly not sexy, so it must be Spanish!!! Or.. a language what I can't speak such as Russian etc, as Porthos in French
I'm a self-appointed language reformer - haven't you noticed that?
What does "planting onions" mean? I haven't heard that expression yet.
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LOL!! porthos & benjamin Maybe I must talk to Pascal in a foreign language !!! he can speak Latin, antique greek, english and bit german. I think that Dutch is absolutly not sexy, so it must be Spanish!!! Or.. a language what I can't speak such as Russian etc, as Porthos in French
Dutch can be sexy at times. My experience with a Dutch girl named Nienke last summer certainly told me that. Her Dutch was rather sexy and cute I thought. Oh how I miss the days staying at an international hotel. _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Favorite languages = English/Spanish
Followed by Italian/French/Dutch
I'm a self-appointed language reformer - haven't you noticed that?
What does "planting onions" mean? I haven't heard that expression yet.
Well, I used it as a synonym for the act of penetration. I don't think it's an existing expression - I've only ever heard it from my father, who is notoriously creative with the language. So it's not exactly me who is a language reformer. _________________ Az alvástól megéhezem. Az evéstől elálmosodom. Az élet szép.
Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject:
Porthos wrote:
Dutch can be sexy at times. My experience with a Dutch girl named Nienke last summer certainly told me that. Her Dutch was rather sexy and cute I thought.
Does anyone remember a thread on either the old langcafe --
or antimoon about the most romantic language in the world? I remember what Sander said about the advantages Italian had over Dutch in that regard. It was very funny -- something about the trials trying to make love in Dutch, in a cold barn in the rain with cows, and chickens shitting on your girlfriend at inopportune moments. I tried looking briefly on the old antimoon but didn't come across it.
Or do you mean there's no real stressed syllables? I think (it's) because of this (that) I don't know which syllable (to) accentuate when I speak in English. I guess I always stress the wrongsyllable For thisreason, I think French pronunciation is rather easy for foreigners.
There. That wasn't so hard, was it?
Uriel, believe me, it *is* difficult. Not that much for me anymore as I have been learning and practising it for donkey's years, but even if I do, my intonation is still imperfect. Normally, it's always the first syllable that is stressed in Hungarian, thus we tend to speak all the foreign languages we know that way. Yawn.
I was being facetious. There isn't much rhyme or reason to our system; I would hardly expect it to come easily to a learner. It's like when I took Chinese -- the tones meant nothing to me, so they were a total nightmare to try to learn, because I'm not used to having to pay attention to such a thing -- and yet they can comnpletely change the meaning of a word in Mandarin. _________________ An apple a day....
and yet they can comnpletely change the meaning of a word in Mandarin.
Bingo. Also, it is our hobby to make fun of foreigners who mangle our language with their well-meaning attempts to communicate with us!
This reminds me of a series of notorious gaffes by one former colonial Governor of Hong Kong. As you are aware, the official Chinese tongue in HK is Cantonese and His Excellency alluded to a clandestine fornication with his mother while he was supposed to dish out some heckling rhetoric on crime and punishment, law and order.
Mandarin only has 4 distinct tones; Cantonese have 8, some say 9. Mandarin is by far, the easiest of all the Chinese speeches (My mother's native dialect, Teochew, has 7).
Deborah:
Sander might have been disarmingly direct at times, but I had always appreciated his insights. That example was one of them. _________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
Sander might have been disarmingly direct at times, but I had always appreciated his insights. That example was one of them.
I don't miss him at all because he was absolutly nasty, but I wonder why doesn't he anymore visit. He was banned one week about an half year ago, but only one week, not one year. Probably he was furious or maybe his computer is broken.
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So what's the feminine form in this case? 
There isn't much rhyme or reason to our system; I would hardly expect it to come easily to a learner. It's like when I took Chinese -- the tones meant nothing to me, so they were a total nightmare to try to learn, because I'm not used to having to pay attention to such a thing -- and yet they can comnpletely change the meaning of a word in Mandarin.