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Have you read Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris?  He's an American comic-writer who relocated to France with his boyfriend.  He wrote a book about his attempts to learn French.  It is hilarious.  Highly recommend it.

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"Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is them the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window. "I want me some lamb chops with handles on `em.""

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Tue Aug 16th, 2005 at 02:37:12 PM EST
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Wow, I love David Sedaris. I bought a copy of "Me Talk Pretty" at the Zurich airport by chance, and I kept laughing all the way home over the Siberian sky.

I will become a patissier, God willing.
by tuasfait on Tue Aug 16th, 2005 at 02:44:30 PM EST
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Favorite of my wife's - We went to the baptism of one of my nephews and she said to my sister. "Das war eine wunderschoene Teufel." ups.


Teufel means devil - baptism is :Taufe, only two letters. (I told her afterwards, after I had calmed down my sister and she stopped laughing, that if she had remembered that Teufel is male and Taufe is female she would not have made that mistake.)

by PeWi on Tue Aug 16th, 2005 at 02:52:05 PM EST
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