Le Idiot

lostprophet · Sep 3, 2007

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Antarctican · Sep 3, 2007

Le 'yikes'

The_Traveler · Sep 3, 2007

Wouldn't that be "L'Idiot"?

Sw1tchFX · Sep 3, 2007

Ok, so not only is the contestant an idiot, but so are the French in general.

lostprophet · Sep 3, 2007

The_Traveler said:
Wouldn't that be "L'Idiot"?

who cares

Alex_B · Sep 3, 2007

wohaa!

thanks for sharing...

Unimaxium · Sep 4, 2007

I can't help but think that the audience members were messing with him on purpose

Alex_B · Sep 4, 2007

Unimaxium said:
I can't help but think that the audience members were messing with him on purpose

well, I would not be too sure. Actually I am very sure many people would get that one wrong if asked on the street.

skieur · Sep 4, 2007

lostprophet said:
who cares

Les gens intelligents qui parlent la langue française correctement CARE. (Intelligent people who speak French correctly care.)

skieur

jwkwd · Sep 4, 2007

I am really dumbfounded. Isn't that something, that at least in the US, you learn in like, 3rd or 4th grade?

The_Traveler · Sep 4, 2007

jwkwd said:
I am really dumbfounded. Isn't that something, that at least in the US, you learn in like, 3rd or 4th grade?

Do you mean dropping the e in "Le" when the noun starts with a vowel?

No, I think I learned that in 7th grade French along with "Le plume de ma tante est sur le bureau de mon oncle, le papier de mon oncle est sur le bureau de ma tante." (but all of that may be wrong.)

JDS · Sep 5, 2007

Unimaxium said:
I can't help but think that the audience members were messing with him on purpose

If I were in the audience I'd have selected Mars...

skieur · Sep 5, 2007

The_Traveler said:
Do you mean dropping the e in "Le" when the noun starts with a vowel?

No, I think I learned that in 7th grade French along with "Le plume de ma tante est sur le bureau de mon oncle, le papier de mon oncle est sur le bureau de ma tante." (but all of that may be wrong.)

La seule faute est "La plume", pas "Le plume".

skieur

Don Simon · Sep 6, 2007

The_Traveler said:
"La plume de ma tante est sur le bureau de mon oncle"

This happens with your relatives too? Why are aunts always losing their pens? And how many times do you really need to use your foreign language skills to aid a domestic search for missing stationery? It's time for French classes to teach more useful phrases, like "But I didn't know that was illegal here". OK possibly not that one.