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Tjoppen
Delivery Boy
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My guess: Only the most popular phrases and songs survived. Everything else is dead. Noone knows what it means, but it sounds cool.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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French in Futurama is much like Latin today. It's a dead language, incomprehensible to the vast majority of the population, or as Farnsworth put it "crazy jibberish". Still some Latin phrases have survived. Most people understand what "Veni Vidi Vici" or "ergo" means.
Similar with French- Most people know bonjour means hello, and other common words, but the language as such is dead and incomprehensible.
Welcome to PEEL, raybow55. Enjoy it here.
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El Zilcho
Professor
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True, but he pronounces it "gill-o-tine" and not the French "gee-o-tine". France still exists, but they speak English instead of French.
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Sil
Professor
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I thought the 'connoisseur' thing was a joke that she was taking the piss?
Anyway, I think that French was intended to be dead, but the fact that Bender's pretending to be Napoleon and speaking French would back up his plea of insanity, that he can speak a language that doesn't exist anymore. Sort of.
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kwigibo
Crustacean
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Zoidberg says 'Je accuse' (sp?) in bendless love when they find out bender has been bending things. That's a somewhat more obscure phrase, especially for an alien, as french is a dead language. But, the delivery is hilarious so i let it slide.
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beck
Bending Unit
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[ JDHannan Beck, my new favorite goat, you're wrong again. Zapp mispronounced champagne cuz he's dumb. Leela mispronounced connoisseur cuz she was making fun of Zapp even tho it went over his head. I'll excuse you the goat thing, JDH, though I really don't like how it sounds. Someone got to stop the useless argument, which can't result in nothing, so let it be me (jeez, If I even wanted to kick your ass I'd have to ask you for invitation to Canada. Oh yes, and air ticket ) And excuse my poor English, you were making fun of in another thread, closed by now. Unfortunately, I don't live in English dominion, so don't have too much of an opportunity to study it. btw, what do the words "cuz" and "tho" mean? About 1BDI - with all my respect to her fans here it's highly improbable that she's actually capable of making fun of anything as (unfortunately) she's got no sense of humour. And I wouldn't think Zapp mispronounced champagne just cuz (see - I'm learning) he's dumb. May be he heard wrong version from somebody before. But the fact, wrong version exists kind of proves that there's no French language and people start forgetting the correct pronunciation. The same about Leela's mistake.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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I would agree with Teral here - even though the French language is supposedly dead in the future, some phrases still survived and are recognisable in society (just like the latin language and roman numerals are today).
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PCC Fred
Space Pope
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Originally posted by beck: And I wouldn't think Zapp mispronounced champagne just cuz (see - I'm learning) he's dumb. May be he heard wrong version from somebody before. But the fact, wrong version exists kind of proves that there's no French language and people start forgetting the correct pronunciation. The same about Leela's mistake. "champagne" and "connoisseur" are words used regularly in English, so even if French itself died out the words would still be used regularly, and people wouldn't forget the proper pronunciation. Also, later in the episode, Leela corrects Zapp after he mispronounces "champagne" a second time, which means she, at least, knows the proper pronunciation. All this suggests that Zapp is that dumb, and Leela was making fun of him by deliberately mispronoucing "connoisseur".
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Sil
Professor
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Originally posted by JDHannan: Leela mispronounced connoisseur cuz she was making fun of Zapp even tho it went over his head. Look, JD - I don't know if I'm not articulating well enough or something, but this point above was exactly what I meant - taking the piss out of someone is pretty much the same as making fun of someone in my experience, but maybe that's just me.
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JDHannan
Bending Unit
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« Reply #27 on: 07-05-2003 06:00 »
« Last Edit on: 07-05-2003 06:00 »
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i have never in my life heard the expression "taking the piss" thats all i wanted to know was wtf that meant also, i thot i posted this, but it mightve crapped out on me... Holy Flood! 174 posts in 16 days by Sil! at one point it was exactly 14/day but now its dropped to not quite 11. EVERY DAY FOR 16 days! *low whistle*
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Sil
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OK fair enuff. And is there like a limit on how much I can post now? I'm sorry if that's annoying to people, and I'll give it a rest - it's a little character trait of mine that when I'm interested in something I totally throw myself into it. I'm sorry if that's a problem.
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1969
Crustacean
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You've never heard 'Taking the piss?' Jeez... Sil - Get a life... really. Spending that much time on a Futurama msg board can't be healthy
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SQFreak
Professor
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Originally posted by fromage: They still have the eiffel tower and it's now hoovering! All right! A 986-foot tall vacuum cleaner!
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