Nine Years

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

More likely to be done by national institutions, no?, rather than Oxford.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
"Marrowful", please, the ghost of Coad reminds us.

I prefer Doghead's less literal translation here of "mellow." But I took it, in either case, as a proper name and not just a description.

 

[Don Rice]

- this with several good historical photos, including one of pere Victor. This from the fall 2002 issue of "Le magazine de la Touraine."

Thanks for the quick translations - I wish I had time to help out with that.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
"Marrowful", please, the ghost of Coad reminds us.

I had never caught this. That is too awesome.

CC: come back.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Wouldn't it be great if we could post, "CC: [text]" and it would immediately alert Coad? Bring him out of the Coadcave?

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
The problem is who or what are the fameux 47. I will admit to hearing definition 3.

Psh! Even I have heard of those '47s. It's, like, a thing. (They're supposed to be pretty good.)

Experts only: how do you translate "a thing"? I assume truc is off the mark in this case.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
The problem is who or what are the fameux 47. I will admit to hearing definition 3.

Psh! Even I have heard of those '47s. It's, like, a thing. (They're supposed to be pretty good.)

Experts only: how do you translate "a thing"? I assume truc is off the mark in this case.

In response to the question of whether it's a person or a thing, the answer thing would be une chose. In my grad school days, soi-disant French fried feminists, in Freudian-Lacanian contexts, used to refer to la chose, but that's another story.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
The problem is who or what are the fameux 47. I will admit to hearing definition 3.

Psh! Even I have heard of those '47s. It's, like, a thing. (They're supposed to be pretty good.)

Experts only: how do you translate "a thing"? I assume truc is off the mark in this case.

In response to the question of whether it's a person or a thing, the answer thing would be une chose. In my grad school days, soi-disant French fried feminists, in Freudian-Lacanian contexts, used to refer to la chose, but that's another story.

No, I'm wondering what word would be used to convey the meaning of "it's a thing". Kind of like a meme or trend or ???

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
The problem is who or what are the fameux 47. I will admit to hearing definition 3.

Psh! Even I have heard of those '47s. It's, like, a thing. (They're supposed to be pretty good.)

Experts only: how do you translate "a thing"? I assume truc is off the mark in this case.

In response to the question of whether it's a person or a thing, the answer thing would be une chose. In my grad school days, soi-disant French fried feminists, in Freudian-Lacanian contexts, used to refer to la chose, but that's another story.

No, I'm wondering what word would be used to convey the meaning of "it's a thing". Kind of like a meme or trend or ???

A trend would be something like "tendance." Then, of course, there's "la mode" or for all the rage, "faire fureur." Since you are asking for argot, really, I expect Sharon will be more on point on this than I am.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Jonathan, you were very argot with your reading of "fameux"... Or at least were langue parlée.

Since I have the cool opportunity to translate myself here and am fully sure of authorial intent (as the one who called it a "thing") I can say that I'd translate it...

Well, shit.

Do authors translate themselves?

Beckett did!

But other bilinguals left it to translators?

(Sorry, I was suddenly feeling that this board needed a dose of angst.)

I will respond in a sec when I finish this other translation I'm working on.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Where are the Quebecois on this board? There's argot for ya!

 

[Sharon Bowman]

I am led to understand that they refer to an automobile as a "char" (i.e. ox-cart in standard French), and one's girlfriend as "ma blonde."

 

[Jeff Grossman]

I have heard "bec" for mouth.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I have heard "bec" for mouth.

I've heard that in France.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

It's different, though—my Quebecois friend Sylvain signs his emails "Des becs," i.e. kisses (bisous). In France, "bec" is used in just a few standardized things like, "ça m'a cloué le bec" (that shut me up) [literally: that nailed my beak shut].

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
I am led to understand that they refer ... one's girlfriend as "ma blonde."

I thought that was their beer. Or am I confusing them with Belgians?
Aren't there more than a few bec fins on this board?

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Yeah, that's Belgian, the beer.

Bec fin is really like saying "peachy keen." It's not really said any more.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Yeah, that's Belgian, the beer.

Bec fin is really like saying "peachy keen." It's not really said any more.

A return to wide ties has been menacing us for a while. Can peachy keen be far behind?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Twenty-three skidoo!

 

[Peter Creasey]

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM): A return to wide ties has been menacing us for a while. Can peachy keen be far behind?

Christian, I was never aware that "peachy keen" fell out of vogue. It is still in play in these parts...and very effectively!!

. . . . . . Pete