Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Is that: waiter there's a horse in my soup....? Or Dante: Caddi come un corpo morto cade.... On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Vince Passaro wrote: > > > 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! > > ca tombe comme un cheveux sur la soupe... > > > :-) > > > Steve > > > > > > > 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 > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >