Francophone pedants, prepare to weep

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry, Calibs, esprit d'escalier on my part. Anyway, I can't remember when I last put a cedilla under a French boy.

No worries...

I'm just glad no one's around at the moment to hear me repeating that last phrase out loud to try and 'get' that last bit ! Not yet grasped what you're on about there, ardy! However I shall refrain from contacting the authorities just yet!


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Oh... you mean...





..."garçon", quite simply

Me and my tortuous imagination

[vinteuil]

Not yet grasped what you're on about there, ardy!

... m'lud, my client assures the court that his relation with the garçon was purely grammatical...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sorry, Calibs, esprit d'escalier on my part. Anyway, I can't remember when I last put a cedilla under a Frech boy.

If you don't, he becomes a garkon.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If you don't, he becomes a garkon.

And as for "Façade" ...

[Roslynmuse]

And as for "Façade" ...

Weeping with laughter!

[Rue Dubac]

Tagging on - c'est bete indeed. (I cannot do accents on my tablet, annoying because they were drummed into me and look very strange without.)
Pedantic: circonflexe is the French spelling. Certainly in 1960s the only accent on a capital was e acute. I imagine to avoid confusion? Would have made things easier for printers.
"Wazo"? Il blague? Can't believe the Academie would go for that, as w not really part of French alphabet, only found in borrowed words.

[ahinton]

But surely that has been the case (no pun intended) for a very long time - at least as far back as my 1950s schooldays?

I don't know exactly how long ago, which is why I hedged my bets with "some time ago" - but it is indeed quite some time.

[ahinton]

A friend in Perpignan has posted on Facebook a photograph of a Great Tit with the suggestion that this is now a depiction of "un wazo." Say it ain't so! (of course, this could be, given his provenance, a Catalan spelling).

Possibly so - mais whatever might Olivier have made of Catalan des wazo?...