Who speaks French?

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

I am sure that out of all the Alley members someon here speaks French. I need to know how to pronounce this:
Les Chiennes de guerre de l'Enfer

[Drydock]

I am sure that out of all the Alley members someon here speaks French. I need to know how to pronounce this:
Les Chiennes de guerre de l'Enfer

Lay she-enz d'gair d'lawnfur

[Tornado Alli]

Thank you Drydock!!! As always, the gentleman to the rescue!

[Garnet Rose]

I'm not sure I'm the best person for French pronunciation because I learned when I lived in Virginia and speak it with a Southern accent and my junior high school teacher spoke Provincial French and my high school teacher said I talked like a hick, but if I remember the rules correctly, it's approximately this:

Les Chiennes de guerre de l'Enfer

Lay Shian duh gare duh lonfair

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

Thanks all! I wanted to know how to pronounce what was going in my signature line.:ty

[Nellie Blue]

And just why do you want to talk in French about a b**** from h***? :rofl

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

And just why do you want to talk in French about a b**** from h***? :rofl
Thanks all! I wanted to know how to pronounce what was going in my signature line.:ty
:ty :ty :ty :ty :ty

[Nellie Blue]

You're too funny! :rofl :rofl :rofl

[Serenity]

Les Chiennes de guerre de l'Enfer

Lez Zchecknez du gurra da la'enfur

least that's how we do it in SC. But then again we're like 51 in the nation in education, just behind Puerto Rico and just ahead of DC.

[Coffee Em]

Serenity, I dunno what the heck language that was, but if you know how to speak something like that in SC, I think you're bein' underestimitated. :rofl

Garnet's nailed it, though, I think.

Fannie, is this meant to scare off unwanted wildlife? 'Cause they might not speak French...

[Wallaby Jack]

I don't speak french.........
............... what am you speakin' of ?

(I do know that French Fries = Chips )

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

I don't speak french.........
............... what am you speakin' of ?

(I do know that French Fries = Chips )
Wallaby, now you see why I needed someone to tell me how to pronounce this. The only french I know is French Fries and French Toast.

[Wallaby Jack]

French Toast .... mmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMM !

[Kitty Phann]

All right that did it. I have go have breakfast now.....mumbles off saying pancakes or french toast?

[Coffee Em]

I'm betting that Garnet, like me, is remembering the scene in "Better Off Dead," when the adorably clueless mom makes a French meal for the French exchange student: French bread, French fries, French dressing...

[DogWoman]

So...When I am at a banquet in a ball gown, somehow DogWoman jsut doesn't seem right. So...Femme le Chien?

[Nellie Blue]

So...When I am at a banquet in a ball gown, somehow DogWoman jsut doesn't seem right. So...Femme le Chien?


Perfect!!!

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Hey! I went to a vocational school and didn't get no fetchin' up in them furrin languages. We had a hard enough time with Anglish!.........Buck

[DogWoman]

My daughter majored in French in high school. She had her first year of college paid with a scholarship because of the French. She plans on going to law school and took French because it was the closest thing to Latin around here.

I had to take it from fourth grade through 10th grade when I switched to German. I started to speak Pennsylvania Dutch before school but was slapped whenever I used it in school or pronounced the English word with a German accent.

Gee, how things have changed, eh?

I still understand a bit of Pa. Dutch and a bit of German. I can read French but have to look up some words. The Olympics were a hoot because I could hear the French & German and tell the husband before the English. They'd broadcast in French first, German, then English.

I took Russian in college. If anything helped my English, it was Russian. For the first time I was beginning to understand the grammar thing. There are still times I know the Pa. Dutch word and have a hell of a time thinking of the English word. It drives the husband nuts, especially when I say something in English that is a direct translation of German. (What can I say, us dutchies speak funny).

[Garnet Rose]

I'm betting that Garnet, like me, is remembering the scene in "Better Off Dead," when the adorably clueless mom makes a French meal for the French exchange student: French bread, French fries, French dressing...

That scene was priceless! Thanks for reminding me of that movie, think I'll add it to my queue.

Another good movie scene was in Time After Time when H.G. Wells goes into a McDonald's and orders French fries not knowing what they are, takes a bite and the light goes on: "Oh! Pommes frites!"

[Four-Eyed Buck]

All of a sudden I'm feeling a little under-educated.:faint
DW, we have an Amish community in two places around us, Hartville, O., and down in Holmes County southwest of here. So I get to hear some of it around here......Buck:noe

[DogWoman]

When we lived in Missouri, we'd go up to an Amish community almost every weekend. I felt like I was home.

Not many speak Pa Dutch in my area anymore. When I hear it or the accent, I really light up. We were not Amish though. My father's people were what is locally called 'party dutch'. His ancestry was German Jew that came over in the same William Penn exodus.