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It's a joke, the stereotype is that French people and crows like shiny things. Our old body shop manager used to call super bright, arrest-me red French green back when 75% of the Explorers we sold were green.
I think you pronounce it " Dix neuf tres" ( deese noof tray )93 is French?
93 is quatre vingt dix trois in French. Vingt is 20, quatre is 4, so quatre vingt is 80. They don't have a word for 90 so they say quatre vingt dix ( 4x 20's+10), then trois is 3. Dix neuf is 19 so 99 would be quatre vingt dix neuf. Doing math in French would suck but it would make sense to anyone who's ever worked on a French car. My last name is among the most common French names, it means drink wine, my mothe.rs family name is Stark, General John Stark first said Live Free or Die after the battle of Bennington, Vt, during the revolutionary war. I'm not a French American, I'm an American with a French name
Not quite, my mother's family were here well before the revolution and the land I'm on has been in the family since before the civil war. My paternal grandfather was born in a house straddling the US/Canada border, he was American because the front door was in the US even though the bedroom he was born in was in Canada. He married a Canadian girl from the other side of town and she became American then.
My French is real rusty. I took it in High School, and all I remember is "Comment dit..." which I think means "how do you say..." ( example: student - "Comment dit '93'?" teacher "93 is quatre vingt dix")
Nope, quatre vignt dix is 90, quatre vingt dix trois is 93. I took French in high school, too, and I graduated 49 years ago. my grand parents and my father spoke Quebecois French and English. Quebecois compares to Parisian French like American English compares to the original, we say aLUMinum, they say ALuminium, for example. The word for head in French is tete with an accent over the first E, Parisians say tet, in Canada it's tate.
Fromidable ( in my French accent )
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I took French in 9th-11th grade. We had to have 2 foreign language credits to graduate. Me and one other 9th grader were the only Freshmen in a class full of 2nd year students. So the next year, we were forced to take French1 again with the "new" students, or move over to Spanish or German. I wanted to be able to impress girls with the "Language of Love", so we both took French for 3 years. Our French teacher was actually French, didn't use deodorant, and was rumored to be in an open marriage at the time. Also she was hot and by the 3rd and final year, I could speak in complete sentences with her. I would often speak to her in French when girls were around to impress them. "Comment allez-vous Madame Cody" " Formidable, et tous?" "Bien" That was enough to get the girls to say, "OOH what did you just say?"
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