(I might have to change the title if I find out that is not how you spell the French word for pig.)
My mother is reading a new book to the children called "The Avion my Uncle Flew," wherein nothing of any interest happens except for a couple Nazi encounters and French people speak like pigs.
I don't mean about pigs: I mean like pigs. Here's what I mean: Every French person in this book knows approximately one word and repeats it constantly. For example, this mayor dude is constantly either waving his arms and shouting or pointing at our main character and saying "Assassin! Assassin! Assassin!" He's like a pokemon or something. Then there's a little friend of the main character who has two modes of talking: "talking really rapidly in French" and "Vit! Vit! Vit!" repeatedly. Every now and then she kicks the mayor in the shins which is entertaining enough. When the "Oncle" (Hey hey hey! That means Uncle in French!) attempts to explain that his nephew is not an "Assassin! Assassin!" to the mayor, he repeats the French word for bread over and over. The reason for this is that he is trying to explain to the mayor that the gun his nephew is holding was found in a loaf of bread. So the conversation looks like this:
Mayor: Assassin! Assassin!
Oncle: Bread! Bread! Bread!
Mayor: *thinking "That is not bread you retard, that is a gun!"* Assassin! Assassin!
Oncle: Bread! Bread! Bread!
I don't spend too much time listening to this book.
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Hmm... sounds like your mom reads very interesting books to your siblings.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, since you mentioned it, the spelling for the French word for pig is cochon. Couchant is actually a real French word, though. But it means, depending on context, either "reclining" or "fawning;" or it can even mean "setting" as in the setting sun.
Do pigs say "Assassin" and "Pain?" (No, I don't mean "pain" as in the English word pain--it's actually the French word for bread.)
Maybe the reason the mayor's little friend says, "Vite, vite, vite," is because she's admitting to speaking too quickly most of the time. Unless she just wants the Mayor to hurry up and take care of the stupid assassin--which is why she kicks him in the shins when he hasn't yet.
Sorry, Duncan, my sister is a doofus.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. This book sounds like a shameless ploy by a homeschool mom to teach her children some words of French. Mais oui!
ReplyDeleteOf course, I can say this because I'm a shameless homeschool mom too.