What is the subtle difference between "ce criminel chanceux" and "ce chanceux criminel"?There is a Canadian talk-show / competition show, called "100% Local", where four contestants from different regions of Canada tell stories of different people and places unique to their region of Canada.
In season 6, episode 3 of this talk-show (at about 16:25 minutes into the show), one of the contestants is telling the story of a historical criminal named Léo-Rhéal Betrand, who was handsome, charming, and became kind of a criminal celebrity in the eyes of the public. Here's part of what she said (taken from the subtitles) :
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Il est encore arrêté, va encore en cour, remet son habit de Tuxedo Kid, et là, tout le monde capote sur son histoire parce qu'en plus, il est beau, il est charmant, il a tout, dans le fond, pour être une star, c'était une vedette qui a été prise dans le système judiciaire au lieu d'être prise dans le star system. Son histoire va se rendre jusqu'en Cour suprême, et finalement, il va être pendu à la prison de Bordeaux. Et il y a un historien de Gatineau qui s'appelle Raymond Ouimet, qui a écrit un livre à propos de Léo-Rhéal Bertrand, qui est sorti il y a quelques mois seulement. Et ce livre-là raconte toute l'histoire fascinante de ce criminel chanceux ou de ce chanceux criminel.
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Questions:
1. What is the subtle difference between "criminel chanceux" and "chanceux criminel"?
2. Why does this contestant say both? That is, is it a subtle joke? Is it to sound playful? Is it a pun? Is there some implied content or attitude that is achieved by using this? etc
Hi,
Internet was slow, it took ages for posts to register. At least one of my entries did not register at all. I made only one mistake, 'auparavant" which l spelled with an e (auparavent). Some punctuation challenges. So, l had rated myself 59 out of 60, not 49 out of 60. How do l fix this?
There is a Canadian talk-show / competition show, called "100% Local", where four contestants from different regions of Canada tell stories of different people and places unique to their region of Canada.
In season 6, episode 3 of this talk-show (at about 16:25 minutes into the show), one of the contestants is telling the story of a historical criminal named Léo-Rhéal Betrand, who was handsome, charming, and became kind of a criminal celebrity in the eyes of the public. Here's part of what she said (taken from the subtitles) :
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Il est encore arrêté, va encore en cour, remet son habit de Tuxedo Kid, et là, tout le monde capote sur son histoire parce qu'en plus, il est beau, il est charmant, il a tout, dans le fond, pour être une star, c'était une vedette qui a été prise dans le système judiciaire au lieu d'être prise dans le star system. Son histoire va se rendre jusqu'en Cour suprême, et finalement, il va être pendu à la prison de Bordeaux. Et il y a un historien de Gatineau qui s'appelle Raymond Ouimet, qui a écrit un livre à propos de Léo-Rhéal Bertrand, qui est sorti il y a quelques mois seulement. Et ce livre-là raconte toute l'histoire fascinante de ce criminel chanceux ou de ce chanceux criminel.
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Questions:
1. What is the subtle difference between "criminel chanceux" and "chanceux criminel"?2. Why does this contestant say both? That is, is it a subtle joke? Is it to sound playful? Is it a pun? Is there some implied content or attitude that is achieved by using this? etc
I can follow that most of the text is in the (futur d'anticipation).
However, I am wondering why the text switched to using the infinitive (entendre), in the last sentence? and why not use the Gerondif -en entendant. like at the beginning of the fourth sentence.
Et pour les petits creux et autres faims de loup
To my ear the "et" in this sentence sounds like the way I would (try to) pronounce "eux". Is the pronunciation here idiomatic ?
These listening exercises are really helping me, Thanks!
Since other French speaking countries use words like septante,octante and nonante it would be nice to mention them in the article. I get that you don't want to confuse beginners but acknowledging their existence for those that might have an interest into learning those alternative words might have been neat.
Not really a question and more like a suggestion.
Do we lose points for omitted commas and other punctuation? When I had dictée exercises in France the instructor/narrator always included reading punctuation marks.
"Je n'ai pas de X."
Should "X" be in the singular form or in the plural? Does it depend on which form it was in in the question?
eg. "Avez-vous une voiture ?" -> "Je n'ai pas de voiture." but "Avez-vous des chaussures ?" -> "Je n'ai pas de chaussures." ?
I'm not sure why but in this lesson, the examples I see are all in English. There is no French translation. Anyone else had this problem? I have seen it once or twice before.
Hi, a couple of lines had missing audio.
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