Hey, if you ever need short realistic French for your fanfic, especially in the Temeraire universe, you know who to call. ;)
"Someone said once (very rough paraphrase) that you could bid someone a good day in German and it would sound worse than cursing them out in French." I CAN BELIEVE IT.
I think that you're right about the "bloody" thing. I distinctly remember a project in my grade ten English class in which we got a sheet of paper with a several collumns of words you could ocmbine into Shakespearian swear words and then we had to write a short story/poem/etc. while utilizing AS MANY AS WE COULD. I wrote a short bit about a man walking into a bar to visit a barmaid, only to be found out by his (other) lover. They chew each other out, then him. It was super-fun! One of the best writing projects I ever did in high school. :)
"More carnage!" Iskierka can DEFINITELY get behind that.
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Date: 2011-03-02 03:41 am (UTC)"Someone said once (very rough paraphrase) that you could bid someone a good day in German and it would sound worse than cursing them out in French." I CAN BELIEVE IT.
I think that you're right about the "bloody" thing. I distinctly remember a project in my grade ten English class in which we got a sheet of paper with a several collumns of words you could ocmbine into Shakespearian swear words and then we had to write a short story/poem/etc. while utilizing AS MANY AS WE COULD. I wrote a short bit about a man walking into a bar to visit a barmaid, only to be found out by his (other) lover. They chew each other out, then him. It was super-fun! One of the best writing projects I ever did in high school. :)
"More carnage!" Iskierka can DEFINITELY get behind that.