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July 1, 2004
WIENERS
Most people like the French accent. They may not like the French, but they like the French accent and especially when a French person is presenting in English to a group of English people.
There are the normal accent offences such as the word 'sheet' which comes out in a French accent as 'shit', and then there's the word 'piece' which becomes 'piss'. But one that I'd not previously heard until the other day was the word 'winner'.
During a presentation, a French lady was discussing a competition and handing out prizes but what she actually said was:
"congratulations to you, you are the wiener" which is, of course, American slang for penis.
Posted by jonola14 at July 1, 2004 12:14 PM
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It's a good job Michael Wiener wasn't attending. Do be sensible. Excellent puddings.
Posted by: Mark at July 2, 2004 5:23 AM
"Most people like the French accent"
Here most people like the english accent too!
"They may not like the French, but they like the French accent"
(only let substitute "French" with "English " and you've got the "réplique" in french in the text "not replica"...)
I didn't know about the Wiener meaning , well as i know some Wiener guys here and also the Wiener filtering techniques , i'll think about that joke when speaking about Wiener now ...
Spendid !
In fact, yes here in Froggy Land, we do like english accent especially when they try to say words containing a phoneme containing the letter "U" .
That seems easy for us , but for english people it seems impossible to pronounce correctlty words like "plus" , "cru" and so on, for instance, i remember a girl who was telling me one day, about her boyfriend that she really wanted to kiss him in the neck (well, i translate quite coarsely what she meant), so it was clearly : "Je voulais l'embrasser dans le cou " quite simple, yes but she couldn't say "cou" (like koo for ex.) but always said that word omitting the letter "o" phonetically ...it was so weird but superb as she was so posh otherwise, we loved her for that too !! We replied to her with a fainted grin : Oh! no chat about sex , please in that place (we were at a restaurant with a lot of people)... quite funny to see her becoming red when she discovered about the thing...you know !
Did you get it ?
Apart that, i presume you do pronounce french correctly don't you ? and btw, hard luck for England in Euro 2004, (i reckon France should have lost against England, but Greece did that achievement perfectly, so ... and then , finally did the Czech team also yesterday ... Whoa , Finalists are Portugal and Greece ! Who at first did think it was that predictable ?
Never mind , i prefer Rugby :-)
I always enjoy reading you btw...
Have a nice week-end !
Posted by: stephane at July 2, 2004 1:38 PM
thank you for the longest comment ever on this site! Although I'm sure that Shunta will now do his utmost to beat your record...
Posted by: Jonola at July 2, 2004 6:25 PM
Absolutely extraordinary.
Posted by: Mark at July 3, 2004 12:31 PM
Well 351 words is a very long quote. I feel bad that I am so utterly predictable that you already know that I will attempt to beat the record for the longest quote ever in the history of your interesting and amusing website. Unfortunately I have very little to say on the subject so all I can do is attempt to waffle for a while and hope that I can write a very very long quote. This actually reminds me of the time that I had to do something that required me to do something else in order to complete the task. It all started very well but towards the middle tailed off and the noise it made was very strange. It was rather like a blind Labrador riding a penny farthing down a cobbled street. (Thanks to Matt Smith of The Cranley Hotel for that quote). Anyway this odd and worrying noise went on from some time until I did the other thing that I had to do and then fortunately the noise stopped as abruptly as it had begun just before. So after this second task was completed all I had to do was something else until Colin had finished his second task. When this was done we decided that enough was enough and went home. He rode his moped and I borrowed my girlfriend’s menstrual cycle as my mountain bike had a puncture. When I arrived home that evening I was astonished to see that what I had done previously had had no affect on the outcome of the day and everything was as I had left it the night before. I am sure that you can see the obvious similarity between that situation and this and how I have used my experience to master this particular task. I hope that this makes sense to you but do not worry if it does not. I will be happy to explain it to you in a pub or somewhere like that. I will probably have a pint of becks. We will not be able to go to the hotel for a couple of weeks in august as eventually they are having a refit there. I will also need to find a babysitter. Anyway I will go now as I have completed the task that you laid down before me and I thank you for the challenge.
Anyway I hope you had a nice weekend and it was a pleasure to see you last night.
See you in a couple of weeks
Shunta (424 words)
Posted by: shunta at July 4, 2004 10:54 PM
Shunta, have you had your baby yet???
I'm a little out of touch being 17,534 miles away!!!
Posted by: Shifty at July 8, 2004 3:48 AM
Thank you, Shunta, for the longest comment ever, but surely you've got better things to do than write bollocks? Like looking after your heavily pregnant fiance for example...
Posted by: Jonola at July 17, 2004 7:03 AM
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