tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post116528661785201794..comments2023-10-18T03:45:34.271-04:00Comments on Mental Blog: Inky Dinky Parlay Voo?Larry Keilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1166154434011680142006-12-14T22:47:00.000-05:002006-12-14T22:47:00.000-05:00w.t. your French is pretty good. I wonder if most ...w.t. your French is pretty good. I wonder if most Canadians actually know more French than they're ready to admit?Larry Keilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1166154308677082262006-12-14T22:45:00.000-05:002006-12-14T22:45:00.000-05:00Well, it seems that what the Ontario Government th...Well, it seems that what the Ontario Government thinks is right is to deny dropouts a drivers license.<BR/><BR/>Makes perfect sense to me. Doesn't it make perfect sense to you?<BR/><BR/>If ya ain't goin' ta skool, ya gotta work. Damned if yer gonna drive there, though.Larry Keilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1166147339795613452006-12-14T20:48:00.000-05:002006-12-14T20:48:00.000-05:00/ accent eculeaning the other a way accent graphe^.../ accent ecu<BR/>leaning the other a way accent graphe<BR/>^ accent circonflex<BR/><BR/>May or may not be spelled correctly.<BR/><BR/>wild thing showing off her high school French.<BR/><BR/>L'oiseau est dans la cage.<BR/><BR/>Le chat est sur la chaise.<BR/><BR/>Le chien est sous la table.<BR/><BR/>Pierre et Marie sont a la maison.<BR/><BR/>Les amie de mes amie sont mes amie.<BR/><BR/>Chose Sauvage est stupide avec Francais.<BR/><BR/>Her only French -she doesn't know where it came from, except that it was a gorgeous fall day, she came back from a walk, and the French radiostation was on- masterpiece:<BR/><BR/>La Rue D'or<BR/><BR/>dans la rue d'or<BR/>je chante<BR/>une chanson d'automne<BR/>dansant avec<BR/>les feuilles<BR/><BR/>nous tombons nous tombons<BR/><BR/>je suis rouge<BR/>je suis brun<BR/>je suis jaune et vert<BR/>dans la rue d'or<BR/>ah dans la rue d'or<BR/><BR/>OK, she just showing off. Text of this blog mostly over wild thing's head. If it wasn't for some French, it'd be all Greek to her.<BR/><BR/>Au revoir. <BR/><BR/>Hey X, I can think of teachers that inspired me. There are exceptional teachers. As for the school systems... in spite of highlights, they suck.But I guess, with so many people and so many opinions, t'aint easy to get it right. Whatever right is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1165418832126788012006-12-06T10:27:00.000-05:002006-12-06T10:27:00.000-05:00Aha! I did not say this bilingual school was in Mo...Aha! I did not say this bilingual school was in Montreal. It was in fact in Hawgtown. I studied political science there. Many of my classmates were hard-core separatists at the time. René Levesque spoke at the College, and earned my respect as a leader & politician. (To me, one of the most honest I have ever seen.)<BR/><BR/>Chantal Hebert, who now works for Mothercorp and one of the Montreal papers, was also a classmate, but I don't really remember her. She doesn't remember much about me either.<BR/><BR/>The War Measures Act was a great topic of discussion in those days. <BR/><BR/>Now I would write more, but I must go off into the falling snow.Larry Keilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1165417282108362372006-12-06T10:01:00.000-05:002006-12-06T10:01:00.000-05:00Larry, I should know this, but what did you (or yo...Larry, I should know this, but what did you (or your inner friend) study at university? Hey, I'm impressed - the guts to go to a bilingual school... in Montreal, no less. That's far-off from Lunchbucket, and would have been like going to a foreign land. <BR/><BR/>I am presently reading John English's book about Pierre Trudeau. The exuberance/intensity of youth and the energy of intellectual gymnastics -- a lot of what Pierre did/thought as a very young man - 18-22 or so - he denied in later life - or downplayed politically. The memory does strange things... new concerns take the place of old ones.... and we shift perspective and details of what happened.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1165379618576319672006-12-05T23:33:00.000-05:002006-12-05T23:33:00.000-05:00Mostly, I can't remember which way the accents go ...Mostly, I can't remember which way the accents go anymore.<BR/><BR/>So I just make it up.<BR/><BR/>I think that's what the French did anyway.Larry Keilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1165379555548450772006-12-05T23:32:00.000-05:002006-12-05T23:32:00.000-05:00I managed to get good enough by fort' year univers...I managed to get good enough by fort' year université to carry on a conversation wit' my professeur. Not a great conversation, mind you, but at least I didn't 'ave to break out into ze Eengleesh.<BR/><BR/>Purty much all gone now. Use it or lose it, as they say.<BR/><BR/>Professeur Trudelle was his name. Fourteenth child in a family of tirteen out of the wilds of the Eastern Townships. Gay as a cavalier. Mais très raffiné. Introduced us to the films of Lina Wertmuller. Swept Away.<BR/><BR/>Didn't keep up with that either. Now that I remember this, maybe I'll see if I can find some of her films. <BR/><BR/>(The woman who taught me French in first year at Lunchbucket U was stunningly beautiful, and also not much older than her students. No reason to tell this. It just popped out of the memory cage.)<BR/><BR/>(The unofficial slogan of my second université, being a bilingual school, was "Mad Frogs & Englishmen". I forget what it was in French, but I'm pretty sure it included the phrase, "Maudits Anglais...")Larry Keilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1165369213901993202006-12-05T20:40:00.000-05:002006-12-05T20:40:00.000-05:00I am always amazed how little French I can speak c...I am always amazed how little French I can speak considering I am Canadian (sounds like a beer commercial...), and I took so many years of French at school.<BR/><BR/>However, I don't want to feed into WT's theory that school makes you stupid (*smile*) - I can think of teachers and courses that inspired me and helped me to learn to think. Mais moi parle francais? NON! Je suis Canadienne? Oui.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com