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14/04/2008, 17:58 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,111 Re: Si vous plait Either from Corsica or Ilfracombe.  Past tense isn't it.    animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.orange.fr/ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

14/04/2008, 23:57 ohsarah Joined on 13/04/2008 Posts 2 Re: Si vous plait Fine, fine. When I posted that it was like 2AM and I'd forgotten about a French exam the next day. Can't actually say that I blame you for not helping, . Have fun bitching about this.    Report

15/04/2008, 10:09 cooperlola Joined on 05/05/2006 72 - Sarthe - home of les 24 heures du Mans Posts 6,273 Re: Si vous plait  ohsarah wrote: Have fun bitching about this. Oh, we do, have no fear! Healthcare Issues Site    Report

15/04/2008, 14:38 J.R's gone native Joined on 16/07/2006 Picardie, Sussex Posts 1,695 Re: Si vous plait So 23.10 is "like 2 am" I am always confused and aggravated by the unnecessary and incorrect modern use of "like" But (like) it continues (like)    Report

15/04/2008, 18:59 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,043 Re: Si vous plait I'm also confused by "like".  I have a penchant for, OK, and perhaps, it is similar to, but as in "I am like really upset by all this like criticism"......then, no!    Report

15/04/2008, 21:08 J.R's gone native Joined on 16/07/2006 Picardie, Sussex Posts 1,695 Re: Si vous plait It was especially upsetting for me when I backpacked around the world (2004) to find that it was (like) even worse in South Africa and New Zealand. What was truly sad was how many foreigners I met that spoke otherwise very good English that had copied the habit, as it was my bête noir I would often tease them after they would say something like (by the way that "like" is acceptable!) "he had like two bags with him" by asking "so how many bags did actually he have then?" The worst culprit was a beautiful Finnish girl that I travelled with  from the Bolivian border through Chile who was making her way to (like) Santiago to (like) teach English (like) to (like) Chilean students (like). Oh and the then boyfriend of my South African second cousin who would preface each sentence with "like" only he had a dreadfull stammer so it was more a case of "like like like like like.............................." I wonder what bad habits and mannerisms I have picked up from the local speech, I have only been corrected for using "par compte" instead of "en revanche" but I am sure there are many others, I contract a lot of phrases like "shuis pas" for "je ne suis pas" and "shais pas" for "je ne sais pas" etc but dont know if that is actually bad speech or local Picard patois as most around here seem to do it.    Report

16/04/2008, 16:59 RicandJo Joined on 24/09/2007 Carcassonne / Milano Posts 130 Re: Si vous plait Yeah but no but yeah but no but.................    Report

17/04/2008, 10:41 J.R's gone native Joined on 16/07/2006 Picardie, Sussex Posts 1,695 Re: Si vous plait Oui mais oui mais oui ..................................    Report

17/04/2008, 12:15 Ron Avery Joined on 29/11/2004 Aveyron 12 Posts 3,095 Re: Si vous plait At least the OP was honest. What she should have done was made out she was taking night school French lessons because she was moving to France and that was her homework attempt, then everybody would have flocked to correct what she had written. Ron in the Avey-ron    Report

17/04/2008, 13:13 cooperlola Joined on 05/05/2006 72 - Sarthe - home of les 24 heures du Mans Posts 6,273 Re: Si vous plait  Ron Avery wrote: At least the OP was honest. What she should have done was made out she was taking night school French lessons because she was moving to France and that was her homework attempt, then everybody would have flocked to correct what she had written. Point. Healthcare Issues Site    Report

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