[SOC] And now we have bulldogs...

[Gwen Patton]

It was one of those moments when, if there had been today's technology, it
would have gone viral on Tik Tok, or YouTube, or both.

Student: Mme. (Teacher), Comment dit on que le mot "seal"? L'animeau, s'il
vous plait?

Teacher, looking in her Larousse: "Hmmm.  Q'est que c'est le mots
... _Phoque!"_

That would have run forever on video sites. It might have made it to places
like 4Chan. It would have been terrible. (Like my attempt to type in
French... I'm sure I mangled that pretty badly.)

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73,
Gwen, NG3P

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 4:43 AM F5PBL <f5pbl at f5pbl.fr> wrote:

>
> > Monsieur and Madame Thibault were the central figures in the French
> classes
> > I got in grade school, back in the 60's. It was the "Voix et images de
> > France" series, and it had filmstrips with records that went along with
> the
> > book.>
> > https://youtu.be/IcqKYQF1Fws?si=VpQlzQWuWp4pQAg4
>
> Very interesting.
> Decades later, we may discover that Madame et Monsieur Thibault had a son
> named Brian! :D
> Alas, this one does not sound funny.
> Hint: "Monsieur et Madame <place family name here> ont un fils, comment
> s'appelle-t-il ?" or "Monsieur et Madame <place
> family name here> ont une fille, comment s'appelle-t-elle ?" is a
> well-known pun game, to be eventually compared to the
> English "knock-knock" joke.
>
> Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_et_Madame_jokes
>
> As for the seal:
>
> phoque: \fɔk\
> the other word: \fœk\ ou \fɔk\
> Honestly, to this day, I only knew the first way of saying it. I surely
> have already heard the other pronunciation but
> have not taken too much attention to it. Should I thank you for this
> lesson? o:)
>
> 72 & less,
> Claude, F5PBL
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