From: lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique)
Subject: Re: romantic french phrases
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:44:13 GMT

In article <Bw6v23.34E@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.60810.10223@ms.uky.edu>, dahead00@nx28.mik.uky.edu (Zippidy Do Dah) writes:
>|> In article <1992Oct12.195526.28315@netcom.com> tyger@netcom.com (Kitty  
>|> in the Middle) writes:
>|> > In article <Bvy54H.Ety@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>  
>|> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>|> > >In article <1992Oct8.172204.2735@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,  
>|> lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique) writes:
>|> > >|> In article <tvechins.921007175810@eng.auburn.edu>  
>|> tvechins@eng.auburn.edu (Toni R. Vechinski) writes:
>|> > >|> >
>|> > >|> >> About the only phrase I can remember of my two years of 
>|> > >|> >> French is:
>|> > >|> >>         Voulez-vous couchez avec moi?        :-)
>|> > >|> >> Which is:  Would you like to go to bed with me?
>|> > >|> 
>|> > >|> Hi Shadowette!
>|> > >|> 
>|> > >|> >Isn't that from that ABBA song "Voulez-vous" from the 70's?
>|> > >|> >I always wondered what they were singing. 
>|> > >|> 
>|> > >|> Yes, it is, but I never knew what they were singing
>|> > >|> either, till I took a french class.  :-)
>|> > 
>|> > *WHOOP* *WHOOP* The Falsehood in Advertising Meter is going berserk!
>|> > 
>|> > >Wait a minute - I remember "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)"  
>|> as a
>|> > >disco song from the seventies.  I can't remember the singer, but she  
>|> was
>|> > >black, which rules out Abba.  Abba did have a song called  
>|> "Voulez-vous",
>|> > >but I'm pretty sure this phrase did not appear in it.
>|> > 
>|> > Amen! another voice in the wilderness in defense of the rightful  
>|> singer of
>|> > this song, Lady Marmalade!
>|> >
>|>  *WHOOP* *WHOOP* The Falsehood in Advertising Meter is going berserk!
>|> 
>|> Try Patti LaBelle (sp)     Lady Marmalade! NOT!!
>|> 
>|>  The ABBA song you may be referring too is WATERLOO or RENDEZVOUS (sp)
>|> 
>|> Also, I think the french verse is incorrect in content or conjugation  
>|> from what I remember my sister saying long ago (she was bilingual so I  
>|> assume this information to be correct but leave it open for correction)
>|> 
>|> Later
>|> -. (<= a really short sig)
>
>*BIG WHOOP* :-) [the ABBAphile speaks ...]
>
>Abba had a song called "Voulez Vous", somewhat later in their career,
>rather after their peak.  "Rendevous" doesn't ring a bell, but I don't
>have all their albums :-) .  "Waterloo" definitely doesn't contain any
>such phrase.  The original French, given above, is correctly conjugated
>and everything, only missing a hyphen connecting "Voulez-vous".  The 
>young lady who said it to me had French as her first language :-) .  
>Mind you, if you are going to ask someone to take part in some mindless 
>snogging, you might as well use the familiar version
>	"Tu veux coucher avec moi ce soir?"
>(putting the verb order in the manner used commonly conversationally).
>


>	Dear, Lis, you see where your mind has led us?  Or was this just
>one of your romantic spells? ;-)

>					*hugs to all*
>							Tony.

Hi Tony!   And Hi Everyone else in Arc-Land!  

I was just thinking the same thing when I saw the length
of this post and the conversing that has occurred.  Aren't
Romantic Spells Great?   :-)

        ** Bewitching Huggs to All of ARC-land and 
           all you Quiet Lurkers out there!! **

Lis, The Official Good Romantic Witch
and Honoured Former President
of the Romantic Fire Association

p.s.  Heaven is a *Hug* and a *Smile*
      the Joy of Music and the Beauty of Silence
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