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Message de domi68 posté le 2004-08-30 20:56:15 (S | E | F | I)
Yesterday I said "I've got a hump on my head". The English man asked me if I was a camel. I was a little offended. But now I understand my mistake.
A camel has two humpes and on my head it's a bump !
Then if you don't to be consider like a camel like me,....
Dominique
Yesterday I said "I've got a hump on my head". The English man asked me if I was a camel. I was a little offended. But now I understand my mistake.
A camel has two humpes and on my head it's a bump !
Then if you don't to be consider like a camel like me,....
Dominique
Réponse: re:bump/hump de minouche15, postée le 2004-08-30 22:45:57 (S | E)
Thanks to you, I learnt a new word .
and this anecdote reminds me one another : one day, I was abroad and on a platform of a railway station I met an Hindou man ; He asked me " where do you come from ? " and I replied him " I live in France " but I pronounced " I lïve "(Aï), he looked at me scornfully and took me away, at this time I was upset, I just tryed to talk English and I didn't understand his behaviour !...
Correct me, please .
Réponse: re:bump/hump de domi68, postée le 2004-08-30 23:54:32 (S | E)
I'm sorry but my level isn't enough high to answer you correctly . But I read in my dictionary that there are two different ways to pronounce "live" and the meanings are different. I prefer to explain it in French because if I try to translate what I read, the answer will arrived perhaps only at the end of the night
live se prononce de deux facons :
* le i se prononce comme "big"
live signifie vivre, habiter
* le i se prononce comme "like"
live peut signifier vivant, en direct ou sous tension
(explications tirées du Robert-Collins "Easy English")
I hope that you'll find the reason of his behaviour
Dominique
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