Posted on 01/21/2019 5:17:42 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
I’ll take a guess...I would pronounce it like Gillete razor blades...Jillet. And the other word for yellow, I’d pronounce Yonnay, So go with Jillet Yonnay...bet that is close.
Well said, Duncan.
I always say so what? That is something a French poet inscribed on a gift from France... what does it have to do with immigration law?
Thanks for the help.
French is impossible for me, near as I can determine, no two unrelated Frenchmen speak it the same.
Among my all time favorite fiction is Victor’s Hugo’s “ Les Miserables”, it is a very good thing that Jean Valjean is also known as #24601, so I can follow along.
All the unpronounceable names and places.
I tend to stumble on the names and it disturbs the flow.
‘Lee’s Miserables” (So-called among the Soldiers of the South, very popular) is calling me for another reread.
I tried the PDF, highlight search...A zillion audio ‘helpers’, most different from the other, plus I’m hearing impaired since RVN and do not use the aids 24/7.
And they say English is difficult!
See #25
U R right.
French , like english, is worse depending the geographic location. Cockney, Scot enlist accents are horrible.
The real French spoken in France is very different than the French spoken in say Quebec Canada.
Cockney, Scot english accents *
After many semesters of French, my wife and a friend visit France.
No matter what they thought they had ordered, it always came out fish?
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