Think “Bien” Means “Good”? Not Quite…

Depends on your age :joy::joy:

Referring to the emigration of American into English. I find it deeply offensive whenever I hear it and shout loudly at the radio whenever it occurs. I should add that I live alone, apart from Jules who doesn’t seem to mind and certainly doesn’t do it, so do love the freedom to do so.

I should also add that it does not trouble me in the least if I hear an American speaking American, or an American speaking English, it is only English speakers using what they erroneously think is English that irks me.

West Indian teenagers, born and brought up in the East End of London (true Cockneys) with Jamaican accents also annoys me. Perhaps like my parents who objected to me speaking Nottingham is the reason, but I doubt it, mine didn’t manage to change me so why should they be any different?

Oooh you are so generous, I only do that with the horrible little brown ones that I am unable to distinguish, but only if, as is common these days, there is a little charity box to deposit them in. :grinning_face:

‘I’m satisfied’ is more positive, in a standalone context. C’est bon can also be used passive-aggressively to shut down discussion (instead of eg basta which we say chez moi on the Cote d’Azur or more aggressively ta gueule).

I might well ask c’est bon pour tout le monde? In a context where everyone is doing some task before we move on to the next thing.

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Is that ‘shut yer gob’ ?
:thinking:

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Same with “ badidon, ça va t’y?”

Like “ah ben oui”

This was something I observed at school, the black kids played with the white kids and brown kids up to puberty, then suddenly spoke a patois. A realisation of culture became important and they segregated themselves as different. Not all did this, but many did. This would be in the early 1970s.

I do not understand your ‘kestuveu’.

it’s a phonetic rendition of “qu’est-ce que tu veux?”

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How do you get them to pronounce the name Taylor. They always say Taylor like the word ‘l’or’ in french.

I’m not sure why you would want to. We pronounce our names the French way.

You beat me to it. :slight_smile: I also like kesky spass? that I read in an Anglo-French magazine.

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So do I, but it’s nice when a French person makes the effort as I would with them in England.

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I am not sure why, but it urked me for some reason?

Yes, it’s nice but do you think the majority of Brits would bother?

I just adapt to their funny French ways. And they find it amusing to try to get it right.

Mind you, Aloysius Cholmondley-Featherstonehaugh is quite a big jump for anyone, let alone a French person.

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Also ‘c’est bon’ can be a question too.

No, or be able to. :grinning_face:

Choomli-Fonçiau? C’est très simple! :smiley:

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