Je vais à Paris
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August 12, 2007, 1:38 am
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Yes, that’s right. I’m off to Paris from September for at least a year. I have a job at the École Normale Supérieure doing research in theoretical neuroscience.
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So I have a job, an apartment, now all I need to do is learn French…
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Well, I just hope you’re still going to have time for the occasional scrabble game.
Comment by azahar August 13, 2007 @ 8:03 amWell done you! I’ll not mis-use the classic faux ami by saying ‘J’ai envie de toi’ – which does not mean ‘I’m envious of you’. Although it might be a useful phrase to learn.
Comment by Edward the Bonobo August 13, 2007 @ 11:45 am‘kin markup language!
Comment by Edward the Bonobo August 13, 2007 @ 11:47 amaz, oh I’m sure I’ll find time for the occasional game. Just racked up 118 points in two goes in my game with noggin!
Ed, I corrected it for you.
Comment by Dan | thesamovar August 13, 2007 @ 2:19 pmI’m green with envy. Have a great time.
Comment by noggin August 14, 2007 @ 6:47 pmHave you read ‘A Year In The Merde’? It’s a cut above frog-mocking tosh like ‘A Year In Provence’. A good bit is where the protagonist is – er – taken in tow by a woman and subjected to lots of casual sex. After a few weeks she recommends him to a potential girlfriend, saying “He’s suitable for making love to a French woman now.”
There’s also a great American character who’s forgotten how to speak English possibly and can only do it as a literal translation from French.
Comment by Edward the Bonobo August 15, 2007 @ 10:51 amYou’ve got a very nice Seychelles restaurant just around the corner from where you are (for a given definition of “just round the corner”). Started marking where the ***’s are on that map yet?
Comment by Alastair August 15, 2007 @ 9:20 pmEd – haven’t read it but sounds like a good situation to find myself in. Not sure what my girlfriend will think about it though…
Alastair – thanks I’ll add it to my growing list of restaurant recommendations!
Comment by Dan | thesamovar August 16, 2007 @ 10:07 pmSo … learned French yet?
Comment by azahar August 22, 2007 @ 7:06 pmI think I can answer that in one word:
Non.
But, just got back from a short holiday in Normandy where I did lots of speaking – albeit only holiday type things like ordering food, booking restaurants and hotels and so forth.
Comment by Dan | thesamovar August 27, 2007 @ 2:02 am“Have you read ‘A Year In The Merde’? It’s a cut above frog-mocking tosh like ‘A Year In Provence’.”
Or that gawd-awful ‘Driving Over Lemons’ by the original Genesis drummer that is equally condescending about ‘the locals’ in a small village in southern Spain.
So, you couldn’t find a waiter or hotel receptionist who wanted to discuss theoretical neuroscience with you? How odd…
Comment by azahar August 27, 2007 @ 1:10 pmI still don’t even know the French for neuroscience! Must look that up. I did venture to discuss the bad weather in Normandy and Britain this summer with one hotel receptionist, but that was about as adventurous as I got…
Comment by Dan | thesamovar August 27, 2007 @ 1:45 pm“I still don’t even know the French for neuroscience! Must look that up.”
Um … erm … well yeah! That’s probably not a bad idea!
Possibly similar to the Spanish – neurociencia (I just made that up but I bet it’s real).
Comment by azahar August 27, 2007 @ 2:40 pm