At least Rousseau's confessions have spanking
Heeeheee Yup. And Masturbation.
My Philosophy teacher was always making dirty jokes. When we saw Malarmé and his bits on the Amazon, he just made the best jokes ever
At least Rousseau's confessions have spanking
Mort à crédit is good too if you haven't read yet (but not as good as the Voyage).
The poem actually has a lot of foreshadowing in the second and third stanzas, so you could sort of guess he was dead.Added to my (already as long as a day without bread) list, thanks !
The best poem from my childhood is "Le Dormeur du Val"
SO POWERFUL when you're a kid, you take it like right in the face.
edit : here it is
Cest un trou de verdure où chante une rivière
Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons
Dargent ; où le soleil, de la montagne fière,
Luit : cest un petit val qui mousse de rayons.
Un soldat jeune, bouche ouverte, tête nue,
Et la nuque baignant dans le frais cresson bleu,
Dort ; il est étendu dans lherbe, sous la nue,
Pâle dans son lit vert où la lumière pleut.
Les pieds dans les glaïeuls, il dort. Souriant comme
Sourirait un enfant malade, il fait un somme :
Nature, berce-le chaudement : il a froid.
Les parfums ne font pas frissonner sa narine ;
Il dort dans le soleil, la main sur sa poitrine
Tranquille. Il a deux trous rouges au côté droit.
Oh he's sleeping in the nature, nice
then TWIST, HE'S FUCKING DEAD.
Still overwhelmed by the feeling I got the first time I heard it.
Just read it translated in italian (not the same thing, I know) and I liked it.Added to my (already as long as a day without bread) list, thanks !
The best poem from my childhood is "Le Dormeur du Val"
SO POWERFUL when you're a kid, you take it like right in the face.
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Oh he's sleeping in the nature, nice
then TWIST, HE'S FUCKING DEAD.
Still overwhelmed by the feeling I got the first time I heard it.
The poem actually has a lot of foreshadowing in the second and third stanzas, so you could guess he was dead.
I actually find the feud between Booba and La Fouine fascinating:
The best poem from my childhood is "Le Dormeur du Val"
SO POWERFUL when you're a kid, you take it like right in the face.
edit : here it is
(...).
I actually find the feud between Booba and La Fouine fascinating
AC Milan by Booba is Hliarious to me
I actually find the feud between Booba and La Fouine fascinating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7gINSZ6Oz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONJrgx0xjwU
His gimmick was funny at first but it gets old eventually.One day I'll tell the World about Didier Super, the best and the worst artist at the same time (needs an OT).
It's so very, very dumb to make high-schoolers read Proust. Few teenagers can fully understand the concepts of loss and nostalgia, for obvious reasons. La Recherche just cannot be enjoyed at that age.
Thinking about it my favorite poem is french too.
Sensation
Par les soirs bleus d'été, j'irai dans les sentiers,
Picoté par les blés, fouler l'herbe menue :
Rêveur, j'en sentirai la fraîcheur à mes pieds.
Je laisserai le vent baigner ma tête nue.
Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien,
Mais l'amour infini me montera dans l'âme ;
Et j'irai loin, bien loin, comme un bohémien,
Par la Nature, heureux- comme avec une femme.
Arthur RIMBAUD
I request an instaban.
Question. Au lycee en france es que vous devez lire la plus part des grands classiques francais obligatoirement? Proulx, stendhal, flaubert, baudelaire, Camus, Hugo etc... Ou c'est plus contemporain? Both?
Personally when I was in high school, 20 years ago, the most "contemporain" author we got to have to read was Camus (I'll let you guess the book ).
I'm an avid reader, always have been, always will be, but I loathed most of the books they had us read. I enjoyed Rabelais and Zola, the rest was at best dull, at worst it made me want to stop reading altogether. I always say that if you want to get a kid to never open a book unless forced to, you need to make them read some Balzac when they are young, like in middle school for me. Eugénie Grandet, *shudder*
Funny to see so many people having read Eugénie Grandet in collège, I thought we had to endure that book (much too difficult for our age IMO) because of an eccentric teacher, but it looks like it was at everybody's program.
Mort à crédit is good too if you haven't read yet (but not as good as the Voyage).
Cèline was never a collaborator (was never paid by the fascists), just a mad dog.
Shout out to my French homies. I'm Haitian so I got a bit of French in me lol.
Hehehehehe.
Seriously though, I really dig Klub Des Loosers in good french hip-hop. It's sad and cynical as fuck, but sometimes quite beautiful.
Didier Super in a fun guilty pleasure, it's really funny once in a while.
So how has France been since Hollande has taken over?
I miss members of the government blaming foreigners or Islam for our problems.So how has France been since Hollande has taken over?
I miss members of the government blaming foreigners or Islam for our problems.
I miss members of the government blaming foreigners or Islam for our problems.
I approved of this until I saw 'UMP'.
Reading Eugénie Grandet is the literary equivalent of eating cardboard while waiting in line at La Poste on a cloudy saturday morning. In Lille.Funny to see so many people having read Eugénie Grandet in collège, I thought we had to endure that book (much too difficult for our age IMO) because of an eccentric teacher, but it looks like it was at everybody's program.
The economy is still shit and not even Merkel respects our president anymore.So how has France been since Hollande has taken over?
I think that's true, but in my opinion, The Economist aren't liberal enoughI notice that a lot of people seem to blame France's economic problems due to it being highly uncompetitive due to regulations, high taxes, and unionization. Is there any truth to this or are many of these people and the Economist are just spewing neo-liberal dung.
...a cloudy saturday morning. In Lille.
Competitivity is bollocks imo.I notice that a lot of people seem to blame France's economic problems due to it being highly uncompetitive due to regulations, high taxes, and unionization. Is there any truth to this or are many of these people and the Economist are just spewing neo-liberal dung.
That wasn't necessary. But eh, it's Groland I guess.I approved of this until I saw 'UMP'.
Competitivity is bollocks imo.
Unionization = EU ? If so, then it's not completely false since we don't have control over our money, unlike the UK. I'm a supporter of Europe but it certainly make things a lot more complicated.
Unions are not necessarily a bad thing, but our current unions are fucking stupid, represent no one but themselves, are hardcore communist nuts (who aren't afraid of using illegal methods sometimes) and don't know the meaning of dialogue and negotiations.No, I think he meant that our unions (syndicats) are too strong and hinder the liberal process (and some would say the natural life within a productive company / society). It's basically hard to fire anyone and harder even to change company policies because the unions will strike and your productivity therefore is lowered - either by the strike itself or the lack of flexibility in your company policies regarding employment, management, work hours etc...
Think Titan leaving the negotiations about the Goodyear factory, probably because they were asked to keep the current employees, the ones that already proved very hard to manage.
No, I think he meant that our unions (syndicats) are too strong and hinder the liberal process (and some would say the natural life within a productive company / society). It's basically hard to fire anyone and harder even to change company policies because the unions will strike and your productivity therefore is lowered - either by the strike itself or the lack of flexibility in your company policies regarding employment, management, work hours etc...
Think Titan leaving the negotiations about the Goodyear factory, probably because they were asked to keep the current employees, the ones that already proved very hard to manage.
Yes, we have a pretty low unionism rate indeed and you are right, they are more disruptive than powerful, however they are perceived as being "strong" because of that. It's pretty sad.You're wrong
CGT, FO, SUD...etc are highly disruptive, but not strong. Germany has strong, organised unions for example. In fact, i'm pretty sure we (in France) have one of the weakest rate of unionism in Europe.
You'll understand most Québec French except for some vocabulary (our swear words and slang are very different), and the typical Québec accent sounds horrible.so France-GAF or Quebec-GAF, what are the major differences between the French spoken in those places? Will I be able to understand Quebecois French if I learn France's French or vice versa?
Yes, we have a pretty low unionism rate indeed and you are right, they are more disruptive than powerful, however they are perceived as being "strong" because of that. It's pretty sad.
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Edit: TROLOLOL:
Thanks for that. Being the dipshit that I am, i posted that on my mom's wall and she raged. <3
This thread is pretty awesome btw. Allez les bleus.
Also, does anyone know a good website to learn French?
Libération is super left wing.I don't get it. Is it super right wing?
Libération is super left wing.