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Old June 23, 2002, 19:59   #421
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the double entendra (spelling?)
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Old June 23, 2002, 23:42   #422
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entendra (spelling?)
Well, close-ish. Seven out of the eight letters right!
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Old June 24, 2002, 03:49   #423
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God only knows how it's spelled down there. Probably has a bloody "q" in it somewhere.
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Old June 24, 2002, 04:40   #424
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Is deity that good at spelling, I always thought it was finbar who cared about spelling.
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Old June 24, 2002, 07:37   #425
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Is deity that good at spelling, I always thought it was finbar who cared about spelling.
Have they run out of question marks down there in Victoria Hydey?
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Old June 24, 2002, 07:48   #426
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Old June 24, 2002, 08:00   #427
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'Tis a pity War missed the subtext of my Trojan line.
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That was subtext? You should have been charged with assault with a blunt instrument.
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Old June 27, 2002, 18:54   #429
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So Aussies , are we playing tonight or do some of you have to set your hair.
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You're the only one of us with enough hair to set!
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Except for makeo's girlfriend, who now seems to be a fixture.

Lucky he didn't show her the skiiing photos he likes where you can't tell who anyone is or what is going on. That might have given her pause.
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Old June 27, 2002, 22:16   #433
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You're the only one of us with enough hair to set!
Oh thats right sorry Horse I forgot.
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Interesting how Horse let that post go through to the keeper, wasn't it?
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Old June 28, 2002, 01:05   #435
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Lol - you could talk
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Lol - you could talk
I did. Out loud. I posted about it.
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Yes well anyway, my parents are arriving from Sydney tonight so don't wait for me. When/if I get online will depend on them.
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Gee, it just occurred to me that the smilies are all bald, too.
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Sorry guys, I'm still having a few mess-ups lately...
tonight not great .. I may show but...
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Nah - you always know when he's really getting huffy - he goes and hangs out at the civfanatics MP forum
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i didn't miss it

i just don't always remember which thread i am replying too.. BTW is entendre spelled correctly now? and would it need an accent over the last E?

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BTW is entendre spelled correctly now? and would it need an accent over the last E?
Yeah, it's entendre. No accent anywhere. It's the infinitive form of the French verb "to hear".
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I got hair everywhere - no probs in that department.

I'm surprised no one picked me up on, 'I may show but..'
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Nah - you always know when he's really getting huffy - he goes and hangs out at the civfanatics MP forum
Moi? Huffy - never... vous est huffy, non moi...

That'll get finbar going! Just watch!

I caught him out once with:
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Moi? Huffy - never... vous est huffy, non moi...

That'll get finbar going! Just watch!
If you need help with your French, Deity, you only have to ask. You don't have to hide behind your embarrassment.

"Vous est huffy".

That's a second person plural, followed by a third person singular, followed by an English word.

First, you have to decide whether you're an intimate of Horse's. Which, even though this is a French lesson, doesn't mean what you think it means. If you know someone really well, you can use the familiar tense - the singular - in this case the second person singular, "tu". If you're not an intimate of Horse, he would resent you using the familiar tense - surely an invitation to use it anyway, but that's a different bouilloire de poisson. Anyway, I know you're not an intimate of Horse's, so you should rightly use the formal tense - in this case the second person plural, "vous".

Now, "vous" is the second personal plural case, thus you have to match it with the appropriate case of the verb "etre" - "to be" - which is to say, the second person plural, "etes". There's a circumflex - a small, upside down "v" - over the first "e" in both "etre" and "etes".

Thus, you should say "vous etes" - followed by the French word for "huffy" - for which you could use the word "fache", with a circumflex over the "a" and an acute over the "e".

If you're really really determined to use the third person singular - "est" - in relation to Horse, you would have to say to someone else, Hydey for example - "Il est frache" - which is to say, "he is huffy".

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But I was right.... as usual
Yes. It means "once more". Schoolboy French. Everyone - including schoolboys - should know it.
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Old June 29, 2002, 13:13   #450
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Damm Finbar, after all these years i never knew you were bi lingual...well tri if you include your aussie english

i speak some, but rather embarrassed doing it French, being that half my family speaks it fluently....but i have no one to speak it with so i lost all my french speaking abilities.....

i will brush up and try a conversation with you in the near future...

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