Bluestocking - the second leg

[ErrolTheDragon]

The original premises are getting crowded, we need to expand.

Welcome all women, and well behaved animals.

Sorry, Gravy Bowser was favourite in the Handicap at Doncaster.

I hope someone did, if that's roast beef.

Mme de Gournay, c'est vous in the first pic? Although I don't think you'd approve of the spelling - which, of course, got worse as the AI got more creative.

I think I'll go onto the Baby Names Board & suggest Hortserasishi next time someone is looking for a unique name.

Gosh I'm loving having a pseudonym, and the various AI-generated versions of what I might look like. All totes wrong but great fun.

I like the heroic poses, ifIwerenotanandroid, and the mad spelling - 'Hortserasishi' is a humdinger all right.

And * *you can say 'tu' instead of 'vous', we're all chums here in the Bluestocking, n'est-ce pas?
[Any foreigner living in France will be familiar with the nightmare of knowing who to say 'vous' to and who to say 'tu' to, and I remember being very put out because the mother of a good friend of mine always said 'vous' to me although I was the same age as her daughter and I thought it was distant and cool - had I done or said something wrong not to be 'tu'?? I never found out.. ]

I must apologise for my apparent absence from the Bluestocking - I have been somewhat brainfogged, but I’m back now and happy to help,with the clearing up - especially if there were to be a couple of those delicious looking chocolate cocktails as a reward.

A friend of mine made chocolate vodka cream liqueur - she made chocolate ganache and then gradually mixed in vodka until she got a sipping consistency. She brought a bottle or two along to the 25 year anniversary of us all beginning our nurse training, and it did slip down very easily. It was nice poured over ice cream too.

If memory serves, at school we learned the French verb “tutoyer,” reinforcing that we taught to how important it was to get it right.

I think it means to call someone “tu” when it should have been “vous.”

The spelling may be wrong, online sources now say it means “to familiarise yourself,” which isn’t quite right. I thought it was more specific than that. Perhaps it was, 50 years ago.

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Apologies, Marie. Tell me, am I right in thinking there was a thing called a tutonniere or something like that, i.e. a love seat on which you use 'tu'? I'm sure I came across it in a Colette novel, but M. Google dit, "Non".

You just sit down and get comfy, clearing up has been done by the cleaning up gerbils.

I'll get you a cocktail. Self refilling glass OK?

I'm liking this pub: hosrtraishi with the beef, chocolate liqueurs and Franglais.

J'aime le franglais. Je suis tres fluent.

J'aime le franglais. Je suis tres fluent.

May we! Je parle le franglais comme une native. Je pense que il est plus facile après beacoup de vin.

Walks in, realises I've clicked on the French audio and subtitles. Backs out slowly!

Does anyone remember a video of a British PM (?Antony Eden) speaking French but with the most marvellous upper class British accent? DH claims he's never heard/seen it, & I can't find it. There's a great quote from someone in Churchill's family telling Winston, "By all means speak French, dear, but not like them [i.e. the French]" & it's like that.

I love you so much, @Boiledbeetle. Hic.

Drink up! You'll be just as confused, but you won't care.

I think that might have been Edward Heath making a speech in French when the UK joined the EEC, 'C'est un moment historique' 'Sayt ung momong historeek'.
I say fair play to him for making the gesture of speaking in French, regardless of how good his pronunciation was, but he was pilloried at the time.

You're spot on re 'tutoyer' JulySheWillFlyAndGiveNoWarningToHerFlight.
My safety-first policy as a foreigner was always to use vous [except to children of course] and wait for 'On se tutoie?' 'Will we use tu?' from the native speaker.

ifIwerenotanandroid
Apologies, Marie.
I don't think any were needed ? but thank you anyway.

Tell me, am I right in thinking there was a thing called a tutonniere or something like that, i.e. a love seat on which you use 'tu'? I'm sure I came across it in a Colette novel, but M. Google dit, "Non".
I never heard of anything like that, but it's such a lovely idea that I've ordered one for the Bluestocking! We all say 'tu' to each other anyway so I don't know what we're going to get up to on the tutonniere, but it'll be fun finding out

Le franglais est plus facile so long as je can resort a l'anglais at need.

Quand je practice avec le Duolingo, je parle un français creditable. Quand je ignore le Duolingo, mon français, il est mort.

Je n'ai pas tried duolingo. J'ai une o-level ancienne en français , ca suffit pour ecrire en franglais.

Moi, je regarde la television francaise avec des subtitles.

Ma programme prefere est Astrid et Raphaelle (Astrid:Murder in Paris) mais je suis part-way through regarder Sambre (Anatomy of a Crime) en BBC4. C’est based on a series of real viols qui passent en France et la Belgique. So far toutes les femmes sont bonnes et font les travails, et les hommes ne prends it seriously enough.

Viols est mentioned beaucoup. Je ne learned pas ce mot pendant mes o-levels , mais les subtitles dit “rape”.

Tell me, am I right in thinking there was a thing called a tutonniere or something like that, i.e. a love seat on which you use 'tu'? I'm sure I came across it in a Colette novel, but M. Google dit, "Non".
I never heard of anything like that, but it's such a lovely idea that I've ordered one for the Bluestocking! We all say 'tu' to each other anyway so I don't know what we're going to get up to on the tutonniere, but it'll be fun finding out

And, of course...

Mon arse gigantique ne pas fitter dans le turonnier.

Avez-vous un xxl?

Oops.
DH est enrager parce-ce-que la older chienne roulee dans 'something', probablement la merde du reynard, lors de la promenade du matin. Elle stinks.

DH a seulement himself to blame. Ces choses seldom happen a moi, parce-ce-que j'ai un closer oeil sur les chiennes.

<Gallic shrug>
Ce n'est pas mon problem.
Je retirer a la tutonnier avec un chocolat chaud et un croissant.

I am wrong to be rather proud that I understood all of this?

Ma voiture est dan le garage pour le MOT et service. Je suis nervous.

Mon autocorrect est having un right mare at ma franglais.

It could etre worse, @EdithStourton. Notre previous chien a roulez dans un demi-seal tres mort, vert et runny. Elle avait besoin de trois baths - deux dans le jardin, avec le hose, and le dernier dans notre shower.

Elle reekez so bad que l'autre chien - un labrador ergo un connoisseur de pongs extreme - ne voulez pas asseyez dans Mia's stink zone.

I do Duolingo - Dutch, Latin, German, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. I don't do all five every day - it depends how knackered I feel.

Today I feel very knackered - despite taking a sleeping tablet, I didn't get to sleep until after 3.30am, and I had to get up at 8.40 because it's knitting group this morning. I have no general objection to Monday mornings, but I wish they didn't happen on a Monday, in the morning.

Ahh well - I can have a nap on the couch this afternoon.