Comments on: French masterclass http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/ Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:58:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Milos http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19087 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:44:59 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19087 Nice!

]]> By: Orion http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19086 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:53:56 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19086 Cool.

]]> By: Roads http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19085 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:27:58 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19085 Riviera Girl:
Ammonites had an operculum (pl. opercula) as well. Further proof that French still hadn’t been invented one hundred million years ago.

Latin was the lingua franca then.

]]> By: parkin pig http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19084 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:17:44 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19084 Were you a “primo-accédante” or just a first time buyer?

]]> By: voixdethailande http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19083 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:20:07 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19083 The top of absurd scientific-sounding administrative french terms : “plaque minéralogique”! What geology has to do with a car’s number plate?

]]> By: Rob http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19082 Thu, 31 May 2007 22:55:45 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19082 Cooking pasta with a hangover….hmm, pasta with clams, check, pasta with smoked sausage, check, pasta with tomatoes and chilli, check, but nope, never done pasta with hangover.

Clearly one of those recipes that makes a mess of the stove-top, however.

]]> By: Ajay http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19081 Thu, 31 May 2007 06:33:56 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19081 #73 Here are a few to get you started :
un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six…

;-)

]]> By: Shaun Mitchell http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19080 Wed, 30 May 2007 14:26:57 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19080 i have to write 33 french words…name some!

]]> By: mbast http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19079 Tue, 29 May 2007 22:26:17 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19079 Ain’t nuttin’… ahem … there is nothing like québecois or cajun French in the way of completely “cinglé” vocabulary. You’ve got to love a country where a “char” is not drawn by horses but by a rather ordinary motor, where “gosses” is not a slang term for “enfants”, but for, well, a male’s family jewels (et je reste poli!). Or where cutlery is called “les ustensiles”. Comme disait l’autre: un joyeux bordel… au sens figuré (francais; god only knows what that last word means in québecois) :-D.

]]> By: Dura Lex, Sed Lex http://petiteanglaise.com/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19078 Tue, 29 May 2007 18:55:34 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/archives/2007/05/22/french-masterclass/#comment-19078 To post 57 and whoever was asking a question about the “plaques minéralogiques” (license plates).

This comes from the fact that in the early XXth century, the French governement asked the “Services des Mines” (literally: the Mining department) to devise a “logical” system to register motor vehicles by license plates.

They came up with the numbering system digit+digit +letter+letter + department number that you can see today.

Hence: Mines + logique = minéralogique.

Voilà !

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