2006-07-08 05:23:14 · 13 answers · asked by ALAN B 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
I've just looked back on all of your previous questions. It's quite obvious that you like unanswerables, but you need to vote for your best answers. Lots of your questions have gone to the vote. Whats the point in playing the game if you are not going to play it properly?
2006-07-08 05:30:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
'Une bise' is not a kiss!
Newcomers to France often feel stumped from the very first introduction. But the good news/bad news scenario is that the French are themselves often unclear on the intricacies of French greetings. But here Nathalie Nowak, a trainer from Global’Ease intercultural training and consulting services, gives some guidelines to minimise those awkward moments.
Janine is the wife of an executive originally based in Toulouse. At social functions, she greeted his colleagues' wives with 'la bise', a cheek to cheek air-kiss, repeated twice, once on each cheek. He was transferred to the headquarters in Paris and she remembers her first formal corporate soirée with a sigh: "As I was introduced to the CEO's wife, whom I had already met a couple of times and already greeted with 'la bise', I leaned forward to do the same while she put out her hand to shake mine. I felt so humiliated — a foreigner in this cold social environment."
The twist to this anecdote is that Janine is French—and yet she too found herself caught in the confusion of the implicit French codes of interpersonal interaction. It's not surprising that so many foreigners arriving to France find themselves stumped from the first introduction.
2006-07-08 06:02:56 · answer #2 · answered by twofingers_69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the song goes "a kiss is just a kiss,a sigh is just a sigh ...but just remember this as time goes by..." and quote "a rose by any other name is just as sweet". When two french people kiss it's NEVER just a kiss ----I know I'm french/American
2006-07-08 05:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by kajunkats02 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is chinese food just food in China?
On saying that, I hope a french letter isn't just a letter in France. The mail would get all sticky.
2006-07-08 05:26:08 · answer #4 · answered by yodellingdolphinofkirkwall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they will ahve a different name for it. When condoms were called French letters in the UK, in France they were called Capot anglais.
2006-07-08 05:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French Kissing in France is really just a kiss "un baiser" or "un baiser profond", but there are slang words for kissing passionately with tongue = "un patin (ou de rouler un patin a quelqu'un)" "un palot" "une gamelle" "de rouler une pelle"
2006-07-08 06:03:50 · answer #6 · answered by Endocytosis 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah....... the French don't have tongues. Poor things!
2006-07-08 05:27:24 · answer #7 · answered by Primrose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its kissing with the tongue and can get more frisky if you know what I mean
2006-07-08 05:28:22 · answer #8 · answered by starrygirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question.
is it just toast and fries, too?
2006-07-08 05:26:30 · answer #9 · answered by Chuby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is
2006-07-08 05:25:10 · answer #10 · answered by gembabe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋