Your younger brother has a smoking hot wife and you are an unloveable french basement tenant in Slough?
moments tristes Kroney
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:55, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

la monde; elle est une maitresse cruelle

( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:56, Reply)

she really is a bitch

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:58, Reply)

I hate to go all French Mistress on your arse, Kroney
but if it's LE monde, you can't say ELLE.

Then again, 'he is a cruel mistress' sounds a bit odd. Why don't you frenchies just speak English like the rest of us?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:59, Reply)

Eh? Learn to read, woman.

( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:01, Reply)

Now it's definitely wrong.
Can't you speak your own language, man?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:07, Reply)

What are you on about
"la" is the feminine.

No, having googled it, apparently "world" uses the masculine. How strange.
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Yes
but 'monde' is a masculine word. You had that part right the first time. It's le monde, not la monde.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:09, Reply)

I guess they don't feminise objects in the way that English does.
I guess it would have to be "the world is a cruel master" but that doesn't sound French enough, damn it!
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:12, Reply)

It's a stupid language.
It's really hard to explain to kids why foreign languages have genders for nouns anyway. Especially in German, where the have three.

*sigh*
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:14, Reply)

Thank God for the lazy English, who phased it out of their language
because they just couldn't be arsed with it
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:18, Reply)

Except in Bristol.
"I've lost me bag. Can you see he?"
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:20, Reply)