Talk:French/Lessons/People and things

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The example of a word that appears to be masculine while being feminine (la photo) is not a good choice, because photo is the abbreviated form of «photographie», which is feminine like all words ending in «ie». —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.92.222 (discuss • contribs) 05:05, 14 August 2005

Beau and sympa
Somebody corrected "nice"to be "sympa" instead of "beau".

This made the text not match the audio lesson, so I changed it back, and made nice "handsome" so it won't get changed back, as I am sure that both are accurate definitions.

I think it's important that the text match the audio- the reason I played the audio was to try to correct my pronounciation of "sympa".

Un chaton
We should put "chat" instead of "chaton"...

Liaison
In English it's spelled with one "i" (Liaison) and NOT with two i's (Liaiison, which is French)

le/les
These are pronounced differently, because it's required to determine plurality/singularity of a noun. But I was under impression that "s" at the end of the word doesn't affect pronunciation. Is this an exception to the rule? I suppose "mes" is also pronounced like "les". Also I said "le jus d'orange" to a flight attendant and he thought I wanted two, so apparently he thought I said "les". I think it's pretty lame of a language to not clearly express such a difference. Also au-dessus/au-dessous, why did anyone thought it is a good idea? But I digress. I should've probably said "un jus", because it is indefinite, but maybe I wanted a specific one? Grue (talk) 10:03, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Chat/Chatte
The feminine form of cat in French "chatte" is never used, because it is a slang term for the vagina (I'm sure you know which one I mean). Somebody might want to think about using a different example.

Mistake?
Talking about il y a: "It is important to remember that verb stays as a form of be and not have." - isn't that supposed to be the other way around?