FRENCH WORD-A-DAY

         
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marrant,e (ma-rahn, ma-rahnt) adjective
  1. funny
  2. odd

Hear my son Max pronounce "marrant" and "marrante": Download marrant.wav

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Expressions:
C'est un marrant = He's a scream
Ce n'est pas marrant = It's not funny

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Citation du Jour:
C'est marrant, je m'entends bien avec tous mes ennemis. Ce sont eux qui ne s'entendent pas bien avec moi.

It's funny, I get along well with all my enemies. It is they who don't get along well with me. -Julien Féret

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A Day in a French Life...

Editing these missives is always an amusing task when using an automatic spell checker. My Outlook Express program has an English spell checker and each time it encounters a word it does not know (read: French) the term is highlighted and a few suggestions are given; the conclusions are often marrants.*

I thought I would share a few of the results--the English suggestions for the French words--with you today, along with a little commentaire.*

The following results are rather à propos:*

     For "bain" (bath)... suggest..."basin"
     True, we do take a "bath" in a basin.

     For "enterrement" (burial)... suggest..."retirements"
     That's one way to look at it...

     For "sou" (penny)... suggest..."soup"
     Or, when you don't have a lot of "pennies" you eat a lot of
     soup...


And some spell check results that are just plain funny!

     For "connard"...suggest..."canard"
     If only idiots were ducks...

     For "pastis"...suggest..."pasties"
     The first is an anise-flavored alcoholic drink, the second an
     accoutrement for topless dancers

     For "soins" (care) ....suggest..."sins"
     Ever feel sinful when you're receiving "soins" or beauty
     treatments?


And my favorite--the all-time best (and one that I encounter often):

     For "maman" (mom) ....suggest... "madman"
     (Hmmm...maybe I should have put this one under the "à
     propos" heading...


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*References: à propos = appropriate; un commentaire (m) = comment