THE MISHEARD:
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| Real Lyric | Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir... |
| Artist | Christina Aguilera (Click for more) |
| Song | Lady Marmalade (Click for more) |
The story:
This would be a good place to remark that this line is some of the very worst French ever foisted upon an unsuspecting public. It reads like it was written by somebody who had one year of high-school French and got C minuses. If that good. He was thinking in English the whole time.
Why would anyone address a sex partner with the formal "vous?" Who's Marmalade bedding -- the King of France?
The writer was unaware that going to bed in French is a reflexive verb: you put yourself to bed -- "se coucher."
I'd also plump for saying "at my place" rather than "with me" -- "chez moi" rather than "avec."
So the correct answer to the above proposition is "Not until you master a better grade of French." For those in the know, the entire sentence is an identifier of the utterly clueless.
Better grammatical virtue that still scans if you stretch a syllable in "coucher" would be something like:
"Veux-tu te coucher chez moi, ce soir?..."
| Submitted by | Anonymous |
| Submitted on | 11/23/2007 03:00 AM |
| Age it happened | 21 |
| Age you realized | --- |
| Better than original? | Yes |
| Convinced others you were right? | Yes |
| Was partying involved? | No |
Comments
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ok I'd just like to say what have you lerned in french ?!?!?!?! ok it's not that bad but... 1. ok the thing with the vous is kinda weird 2. but in this case you don't have to use instead of se coucher cause this means sleppin with someone/having sex 3. if you spek french you don't really use this veuxt-tu / voullez vous so it's not so wrong wht you said abaut C minus (xD)
Holtzkopf Jul 17, 2008 9:52 am
