From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2008-05-18T06:17:35+09:00 Subject: Re: Dude? On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Robert Dober wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Petite Abeille > wrote: >> >> On May 17, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Robert Dober wrote: >> >>> I will put it this way, you should not call somebody dude unless you >>> have herded sheep with her ;). (Comes from a French idiomatic sentence). >> >> Cows, not sheep, i.e.: >> >> "Avoir gardé les vaches ensemble" or not... > > You are the native speaker, but I know that my wife says "gardé les > chevres ensemble", she is from Britany, maybe local differences? Dudes, Guys, Mecs Cows, Sheep, Goats Il s'agit de d'où on vient, n'est-ce pas? -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/