Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pas vrai? I like that. as in: it's a nice walk on the quai... pas vrai? call the sommelier! axe him for Pouilly Fume'! Drink up drink up and let that woman pay! Etc etc. (A mnemonic only I could find useful...) Many thanks. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:42 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>wrote: > I agree with Tarek, > > Yet, 'n'est-ce pas' is a scarcely used form nowadays, and considered as > formal; lecturers - bad ones particulalry - use it a lot to remind their > sleepy? audience of their existence ... :-) > > In everyday talk, you'll hear : hein?, pas vrai?, tu crois pas? etc. just > as the British might resort to ennit, wudniah, didny, etc. > > BTW saying ' *n'c'est pas* ' as first suggested would probably be construed > as ' j'n'sai pas = je ne sais pas', i.e I don't know or rather, dunno. > > Bien cordialement de la partie nord de la Catalogne francophone. > Philippe > > Le 24 mars 10 ? 09:27, Tarek Charara a ?crit : > > >> n'est-ce pas... :) >> >> Le 24 mars 10 ? 06:25, Vince Passaro a ?crit : >> >> *n'c'est pas* -- Oui? >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > NO ARCHIVE > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >