MadmoiZelle speaks English

[Pavlova]

I join you girls, I didn't notice there was an English topic on mmz! That's such a good idea. You all seem to be pretty fluent though... I hope I won't be ridiculous!

[Pantaleon]

It will become an english "En ce moment, là maintenant ..." topic ?

Orehn, if you want I can tell you the story, but I need an audience to participate, haha !

[suspensi0n]

Posté par Lavana

It will become an english "En ce moment, là maintenant ..." topic ?

Orehn, if you want I can tell you the story, but I need an audience to participate, haha !

Kind of

I want to know the story too !!!

[Pantaleon]

OK, let's do this ! (I will do the audience too, it will be less funny, but anyway)

It's a sperm world with a sperm king and a sperm people.

One day, the sperm king talks to his people :
"SPERM PEOPLE ! I HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS AND SOME BAD NEWS !"
The sperm people say : "GOOD NEWS ! GOOD NEWS !"
"TONIGHT, WE'LL HAVING SEX !"
"YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!!!!"
"BUT THERE IS A CONDOM !"
"BOOOOOOH !"
So, all the sperm people took tools to tear the condom. Later, the sperm king come back to say :
"SPERM PEOPLE, WE FAILED ! BUT TOMORROW WE WILL TRY AGAIN !"
"YEAAAAH !"

The next day, the sperm king come back :
"SPERM PEOPLE ! I HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS AND SOME BAD NEWS !"
"GOOD NEWS ! GOOD NEWS !"
"TONIGHT, WE'LL HAVING SEX !"
"YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!!!!"
"BUT THERE IS A CONDOM !"
"BOOOOOOH !"
So, all the sperm people took again tools to tear the condom. Later, the sperm king come back to say :
"SPERM PEOPLE ! I HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS AND SOME BAD NEWS !"
"GOOD NEWS ! GOOD NEWS !"
"WE SUCCEEDED !"
"YEAAAAAAAAH !"
"BUT ... we are in the shit ...."


(The end is less funny in english, because in french the expression is "On est dans la merde", so it has two senses and I find that really funny !)

[suspensi0n]

I love your story !!
You could have said "We are in the merde" because an English book is called "A year in the merde" [by the way, you should read it, it's really funny !!!]

[Pantaleon]

Posté par suspensi0n

I love your story !!
You could have said "We are in the merde" because an English book is called "A year in the merde" [by the way, you should read it, it's really funny !!!]

Oh yeah, I rode it some years ago, but I didn't really like it :/ I am pretty weird.

[suspensi0n]

I liked the first book, but the second is not really good.

[Lelaina]

(Lavana, I love you)

I tried to read the book (in French) and I really didn't like it. I thought it wasn't funny or interesting. Do you think I should've tried in English rather than in French?

[Pantaleon]

Posté par Lelaina

(Lavana, I love you)

I tried to read the book (in French) and I really didn't like it. I thought it wasn't funny or interesting. Do you think I should've tried in English rather than in French?

I rode it in french too, I don't know if it is better in english. I think I found the characters too cynical to me, so no language can change that .

(And I love you too, Lelaina from Little Britain )

Edit : When I read the title of this topic, I heard Patrica Kaas singing it like "Mademoiselle chante le bluuuues", it is a little bit frightening !

[Pantaleon]

Posté par Maelie

I've read "A year in the merde" in English and I found it very funny ! Maybe because I was living in England at that time and I could see that all the clichés that are in the book are not always only clichés ?!

Oh, I can imagine you saying "clichés" with an english accentuation, it is so lovely !

[suspensi0n]

I liked it because what they say about "grèves", "la bise" and stuff like that is completely true. I found it fun to be analized by an English man

[Pantaleon]

Posté par Rata

Didn't like it neither. Some "clichés" are well-found, but broadly speaking, it's nearer of chick-lit (a good-looking British man who sleeps with beautiful French girls) than of a hilarious English novel. Clarke may have lived in France too longer. If you want to read a real good comic book, Nick Hornby is far more cynical, subtle, and in a more British way.

I am not fan of Nick Hornby, even if I prefer his books to A year in the merde. I guess that English literature is not for me .

[suspensi0n]

French literature is better than English literature. But English series and films are the best

[suspensi0n]

Well, it depends on what we like in literature.
To me, French literature is more poetic (I don't speak about poetry. I think that French novels use more poetic "images" than English ones).

[suspensi0n]

Posté par Rata

Nobody would be able to make such an affirmation. Unless you have read every English and French books of all times. Read some poems written by Blake, Wordsworth, or Keats, some novels by Woolf, Jane Austen, or the Brontë sisters, and you'll see that English writers also used some lyrical techniques. (8

This is just my point of view To me, nowadays, English is a spoken language, whereas French is more written. But, still, this is MY point of view.

[Winter River]

Posté par Rata

Didn't like it neither.

Didn't like it either :redface:

I can't believe I'm only finding out about this topic right now!

[Sloane]

This topic is such a good idea ! thanks to suspensi0n !
Well, about litterature, I'd rather read English than French litterature, and I think it's precisely more poetic than French litterature. I'm keen on reading Austen's novels and Shakespeare's plays (you should read A Midsummer night's dream in english, such a poetic and wondrous play! )

[suspensi0n]

Posté par Winter River

I can't believe I'm only finding out about this topic right now!

It's new

[Caesonia]

I'm feeling sooo silly. The only books I've read in english are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Animal Farm by George Orwel (but I don't really remember about it). Actually I'm reading Hamlet by Shakespeare and I love it. But it's really hard to understand his english so I chose a bilingual edition to help me.

So, my point is : What should I read in priority ? (english books, not american) I WANT A LIST!

(If I do mistakes, please, tell me! I'm not the best in english T_T)

[Sloane]

Posté par Orietur

However (and I allow you guys to kill me off), I can't help finding Austen novels cheesy. Sounds like older Bridget Jones to me. (Just kidding. Maybe.)

Your comparison has made me laugh ! I don't think they're cheesy, the characters are sometimes a little simple-minded, but their relationships (or loveships) are so beautiful

About Syce , however it's a bit hard to understand, keep reading Shakespeare, it's a good way for improving your english vocabulary