tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post8793046907447146028..comments2024-03-28T07:13:10.797+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: All falls come to an endRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-50761923313105160312013-06-18T07:10:12.106+01:002013-06-18T07:10:12.106+01:00Joe: Reluctance to tutoyer. This requires elaborat...Joe: Reluctance to <i>tutoyer</i>. This requires elaboration. It was not through modesty because I am never modest in France. Rather that if you have a dubious accent (as I have) the second-person plural (eg, <i>vous avez</i>) gives you more sounds to get across your meaning than the singular (<i>tu as</i>).<br /><br />Lucy: You've made the point in one: reach out (linguistically) and you find more good sports. And you're right too about the philosophical aspects of this interminable subject. Discussing it over a pastis (a drink we've resurrected for this holiday) in a boulevard café and you can imagine - for a split second and quite erroneously - that you're getting to the heart of being French<br /><br />Tom: In one of the James Bond books (I don't read Proust all the time) the villain wants to cause Bond pain but not to disable him. After some heavy-handed discussion he suggests one of his henchmen break Bond's little finger on the grounds that it is possibly the least necessary bony structure on his body. This the henchman does. In a sense I was using the <i>patronne</i> to help re-create this scene. Strange how different the theory seems when compared with the practice. Thus, answering your question, VR is doing the best she can wih a now nine-fingered hubbie.<br /><br />Ellena: Well, you can't pretend you weren't warned.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-61143016256653388292013-06-18T01:05:14.387+01:002013-06-18T01:05:14.387+01:00Now that I tutoie tout le monde they have started ...Now that I tutoie tout le monde they have started to vousvoyer me. Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-8062589403967180822013-06-17T18:03:37.632+01:002013-06-17T18:03:37.632+01:00I hope everything is well with you and your family...I hope everything is well with you and your family.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-29408191462923093762013-06-17T17:54:38.856+01:002013-06-17T17:54:38.856+01:00She probably thinks you've got a big crush on ...She probably thinks you've got a big crush on her now. She sounds like a good sport anyway<br /><br />But where would we anglophones be without the old tutoyer/vouvoyer conundrum to worry about? We do not keep the cows together! Or do we...?Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-89566472943238783432013-06-17T17:23:31.829+01:002013-06-17T17:23:31.829+01:00I remember your reluctance to tutoyer, and inhibit...I remember your reluctance to tutoyer, and inhibition from which you have it seems brilliantly recovered. Congratulations.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.com