ok, then, tell me phonetically how to say "poutine"!!! is it "poo-teen"?
my wife would be quite unpleased if our order were to arrive, say,
wearing fishnet stockings...
On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 07:09 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
> On 25/07/02 09:45, "John Charlton" <johncharlton_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
>>> Now that you're mentioning St. Laurent, I kinda remember a
>>> place at the corner of St. Laurent and Ste. Catherine. Don't
>>> remember how it was called and whether it's still there, though...
>>
>> Even though that area has been cleaned up, it's still not a great
>> place to
>> bring a family. A lot of interesting things went on in that
>> restaurant. One
>> place where you really wouldn't want to mix up the pronunciation of
>> 'Poutine'! I think it's changed owners (a few times) in the last
>> while, and
>> now might even be a Lebanese place, those are all over.
>
> As in "putain"? If you really have your French pronunciation right,
> there is
> quite a difference between "poutine" and "putain" (which used to hang
> out a
> lot around St. Laurent), but I agree that for a foreign speaker, there
> is a
> slight risk... ;-)
>
> -Laurent.
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> new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992 on Usenet. [A friend
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> which
> alien species after species goes insane and begins to chant "Grilf!
> Grilf!".
> A human detective eventually determines that the word means "Liar!" I
> hope
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