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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Is French the language of love [1]
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Date: 2023-11-03
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I would have been a terrible parent, trying to choose complete weeks where our family would alternately speak Chinese or French at home. My Cantonese-speaking parents consciously decided to concentrate on English, so I wound up with television’s accent and dialects like the Upper Midwestern of news broadcasts, much like the “received pronunciation” of the broadcast standard “BBC English”. But Americans should be multilingual, if only because there are multiple lingua franca with which to conduct “business” or politics. Then there’s the language of love.
" Je t'aime… moi non plus " ( French for "I love you… me neither") is a 1967 song written by Serge Gainsbourg for Brigitte Bardot . In 1969, Gainsbourg recorded the best known version with Jane Birkin . The title was inspired by a Salvador Dalí comment: "Picasso is Spanish, me too. Picasso is a genius, me too. Picasso is a communist, me neither". [10][12] x I love David Lynch but I still feel this tops anything he has ever made in terms of pure surrealism. It is without equal. pic.twitter.com/2wB3pvULFu — Tom Reagan’s Hat (@RufusTSuperfly) November 2, 2023 On a TV appearance toward the end of his life, he was surprised by a choir of children (Les Petits Chanteurs d’Asnières) in full Gainsbourg regalia—black jacket, gray wig, sunglasses, whisky, cigarette, unshaven—and brought to tears by their homage to one of his classics. They’ve singing Serge’s “J’e suis venu te dire que je m’en vais” (“I came to tell you that I’m leaving”) but they’ve changed it to “On est venu te dire qu’on t’aime bien” (We came to tell you that we like you). No wonder he’s all weepy! x x YouTube Video
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