Any French language pedants out there?

[chocolateismyonlyweakness]

We were on holiday last week in the Isle of Wight and saw a florist's shop with a sign: "Mon Cherie Flowers."

They could at least have found out the correct pronoun and added the accent over the e! "Ma chérie" would be correct.

That's too funny, Anna.

Ah yes. 'jus' - belongs in the bin with 'drizzle'

....... on the basis that they're pretentious words, not because it's a misuse of French!

Anna - would you call anyone on a forum 'tu'? It would be incredibly divisive, I think, if that were the case!

I think what Anna was objecting to was the redundant 'with' before the 'au jus', but I may be wrong.

I know - I was objecting to the use of that dreadful word jus!

There is masses of tutoiement on forums!

Mais, ca serait commes un quiche, n'est-ce pas?!

Can you french speakers tell me the difference between the perfect and past historic tense. I couldn't tell the difference according to the explanation in in my grammar / verb book

Perfect tense and past historic translate to the same thing in English (ie simple past 'I ate' or perfect 'I have eaten' depending on context in English). Past historic is very literary, however, and not used in spoken French. There is no real difference in meaning though in terms of translation.

Je ne comprend pas!

BecauseImWorthIt, translated into English (unless my learners' French fails me) "this would be like a quiche wouldn't it?!"

or je ne comprends pas!

Should be 'that would be a quiche, wouldn't it?' - so your learners' as long as I remembered everything!

(Disclaimer - last studied French for A-level in 1977!)

What would be like a quiche?