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23 Oct 2009, 12:08 pm

It means either quite or absolutely.

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23 Oct 2009, 12:11 pm

Thanks Erminea and Sallamandrina. The phrase has bugged me for ages. I keep hearing it on French television but knew they were not meaning the words literally.

I win by the way.

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23 Oct 2009, 12:23 pm

Can't you watch TV5 'monde' where you are? They tend to subtitle programs either in a different language (English, German, Dutch) but also with French ones. French films with French subtitle/ sous titres, je pense (TT page.... yeah, what was it again? My provider of TV channels do not broadcast TV5 'monde' anymore = bugger)

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23 Oct 2009, 12:34 pm

Erminea wrote:

We've got TNT which is 18 French TV channels. Some Brits who moved here have satellite dishes so they can still get British television but I decided not to do that - listening to French TV is very helpful for us to learn the language. It is getting easier now and I understand a lot of what is being said. I'm also reading lots of French. However I get very little practice writing or talking French. I'm learning to like the language.

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23 Oct 2009, 1:04 pm

I win again!

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23 Oct 2009, 1:10 pm

No you don't the coyote is hot on your heels...

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23 Oct 2009, 1:58 pm

Well, I win.

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23 Oct 2009, 2:06 pm

Sorry, not allowed. I'm the only winner - it says so in the rule book page 87 paragraph 3.

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23 Oct 2009, 2:10 pm

Have you read the whole rule book? (in the French language?)

Ping, I win.

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23 Oct 2009, 2:18 pm

J'ai lire toute le livre. Je comprendre rein! C'est la vie. Alors - je gagner mentnon.

(Sorry for all the spelling mistakes that are probably in there!)

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23 Oct 2009, 2:35 pm

Maybe we should start a thread for folks that wish to learn the, indeed beautiful, French language a little. Il y a peuple de France ici et autres qui connaître le langue. Mais comment? How to make it appealing for folks to post? No idea.

(maybe trying to translate, sentence by sentence, a short fairy tail or a fable (by J. de la Fontaine) from French to English, for instance)(maybe Lemon, Zena, Sallamandrina, others could help here a bit, correcting stuff)

Peut être, far fetched.

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