Comments on: Saying “c’est un scandale”

By: Olivier Magny

Olivier Magny — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:26 +0000

Henry… Yeah, not sure how these two combine but they do indeed.
Nathan… Arghhh… take me out of here!!

By: Nathan Lambert

Nathan Lambert — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:23:50 +0000

So you take a good ripe “Mouais…”
Add a little “Tout ça pour dire que voilà quoi”
Mix in some “je veux dire que”
Add a teaspoon of “clairement”
Round it off with “c’est pas le tout mais…”
And cook it with some “c’est honteux!”
Sprinkle on a few guttural “euuuhhhh” here or there…

And there you have it: the perfect cocktail of your average Parisian unimpressed sentence.

“Mouais… Euuuh, Tout ça pour dire que voilà quoi… ‘Fin j’veux dire que, euuuh, clairement, euuuh, c’est pas le tout mais euuuh c’est honteux à la fin quoi”.

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:17:56 +0000

Nice one!
Oh and don’t forget “je suis désolé”

C’est vrai, je suis désolé mais c’est un scandale !

By: Olivier Magny

Olivier Magny — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:24:48 +0000

Carmelo… Will try!
Diane… Don’t cry – really. Speaking will do!
Vlr… Carmelo (who’s my brother) is a closet geek!! And I do hope indeed that not all the people reading SPL are geeks! Last SPL get together would lead me to think it’s not the case…
Lil… C’est le bordel!! Yep. Or even better, “Putain, c’est quoi ce bordel?” For the interrogative souls!
M… Well that is very kind, thank you. You seem to speak quite impeccable English for a non anglo expat.
POulette… Absolutely!! Adult version of little kids’ “C’est pas du jeu”… We never really grow up that much, do we?!

By: Poulette

Poulette — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:41:17 +0000

Mais c’est pas juste! Is that right?

By: M

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:56:24 +0000

Sort of stumbled onto the blog by sheer accident and just wanted to say it was the most entertaining read I’ve had in a while. Being an expat of the non-Brit, non-American variety (I know! We exist too!) now living in Paris, I’m always curious to know what the French think of themselves. And I have to say a lot of the people I know fit many of your descriptions to a T. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not! Congrats on the book deal. I’ll look forward to reading it once it’s out.

By: Lil

Lil — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:06:24 +0000

One expression I hear a particular friend uses a lot it c’est bordel! As for the RSS function, I’m not particularly geeky and I only load the website url to my google reader and it works like a charm.

By: vlr

vlr — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:50:37 +0000

Carmelo, I have to disagree. I think people read Olivier’s entries regardless. If only “geeks” know about the RSS button, then it probably won’t influence too many people.

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:17:20 +0000

“Well, words are precious little things, aren’t they. If we don’t use them, they get all sickly and end up dying. Look at the genocide America is perpetrating these days… Words resistance is in order.” I think I’m going to cry. Even the thought of perfectly petite pretty precious words passing renders me positively pettish and peevish…C’est un scandale! Vive la preservation de paroles!

By: carmelo

carmelo — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:18:03 +0000

You have to fix that RSS button since it DOESN’T work.
I know you have no idea what it means but ask some geek you know or you will lose loads of followers
And then send the link to that RSS subscription through a newsletter or something