From: John Maclean <jayeola@...>
Date: 2008-05-18T21:05:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Dude?

What's wrong with "chap"?
:-)

On Sun, 18 May 2008 18:17:03 +0900
"Robert Dober" <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Petite Abeille
> <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On May 17, 2008, at 10:29 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?
> >
> > Goats in Britany? Very unlikely. Something must have been lost in
> > translation then :)
> I know this is completely OT now, but this is a very open community so
> I dare to continue, after all it is interesting some people ;)
> Goat was it, right, I knew that chevre != sheep but goat did not
> spring into mind.
> Well that's what she says, you can be very surprised in languages,
> especially in French.
> To Rick: very interesting point I never visited the West Coast, maybe
> dude has a different meaning over there. And I guess that you are
> right
> every Frenchwoman would understand "On n'a pas gardé les x ensemble"
> for a large set of x ;) especially in social context which we do not
> have on the list.
> 
> Cheers
> Robert
> >
> > --
> > PA.
> > http://alt.textdrive.com/nanoki/
> >
> 
> 
>