"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
12/22/2016 at 23:35 • Filed to: None
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"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
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A bit of a shame really...
lone_liberal
> Flavien Vidal
12/23/2016 at 00:13 |
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Off topic but not being a French speaker, I’ve wondered why the French is “24 Heures du Mans” Given that the town is Le Mans why is it “du Mans”?
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Flavien Vidal
> lone_liberal
12/23/2016 at 00:27 |
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Because le Mans, would be the Mans in english. Le is only an article that is part of the name...
In french, we don’t say “Les 24h de le Mans” which would translate by “The 24 hours of the Mans”. Instead of using “De le”, which is not correct french, we say “Du”. Therefore, it becomes “Les 24 heures du Mans”.
Same thing when we go there. To say “We’re going at the Mans”, we cannot say “Nous allons à le Mans”. Instead of “À le”, we use “Au”. Therefore the correct way to say it is “Nous allons au Mans”.
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lone_liberal
> Flavien Vidal
12/23/2016 at 01:04 |
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Thanks! That actually makes sense!
DipodomysDeserti
> Flavien Vidal
12/23/2016 at 07:52 |
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Du.
Du hast.
Du hast mich.
*Sorry, I don’t know what happened there.
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Flavien Vidal
> DipodomysDeserti
12/23/2016 at 08:19 |
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Don’t worry, I do speak German and do love Ramstein too... :)
“Du” in German translates by “tu” in French though :)