There is an alternative

[chickenfeet]

OK enough depressing news about Iraq and the inhabitants of the CretinCondo in DC.

French cartoonist Reiser presents a viable alternative to mass murder a la Bush.

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Comments

for the non-frencified of us...

[fortunatecave.livejournal.com]

totally missed the punchline....

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Tire-toi métèque?

Shove off foreigner (lit: metic in the sense of a non native domiciled in Athens)

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[fortunatecave.livejournal.com]

AH! nothing like getting the punchline.
but i gather you are fluent in French?

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Rather less than fluent. My French is probably about as good as the English spoken in the average outsourced call centre.

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[fortunatecave.livejournal.com]

but it was still enough to get the gist of the comic strip.
I had junior high french for one month before we moved back to india....i got as far as Fere Jacques and the alphabet song in French.

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I read french well enough. I've read Gide and Sartre in the original. I don't speak it that well though when I'm drunk enough I sometimes think I do.

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[fortunatecave.livejournal.com]

WOW! Sarte?

* bows low and does the whole we're not worthy routine*

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[fortunatecave.livejournal.com]

WOW! Sarte?

* bows low and does the whole we're not worthy routine*

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Actually in some ways Gide is harder as he uses constructions and vocabulary that have gone out of use in modern French.

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Gide? Which? I would have thought he was easier than Sartre. Heck, Sartre is a slog in French...

Re: for the non-frencified of us...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think in general Gide's style is more accessible but he uses tenses I've never seen anywhere else. There's a sort of pluperfect that uses the past historic plus the past participle for example. Vocab though isn't as challenging as reading late 19th/early 20th century Quebecois writers. Yes, I've read Ménaud, Maitre Draveur in French. I'm slightly mad.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Oh, golly, this is spooky. I grew up on Charlie Hebdo and Pilote (where I published my FIRST article aged 17, and WAS I PROUD), and I remember very well when Reiser died in 1983...

"Certaines religions interdisent l'alcool..."
"TANT MIEUX! Y'en aura plus pour les athées!"

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I discovered Reiser when I was (briefly) dating an Irish girl in Paris. She'd been the chief bridesmaid at my brother's wedding and well, y'know.