Re: Build Quality ? Reply #20 – August 20, 2020, 10:37:57 pm Quote from: Olde English – August 20, 2020, 10:01:25 pmMy understanding was that the pronunciation was mono cock, as in the French cock au vin. The suggestion from google seemed unpronounceable, mon comes out with a double a. In all my years of parling francais I've never heard it said anything like that. ? is goggle the ultimate arbiter, I think not. But then after 42 years I'm still having trouble with American, haha Do you say I-key-yah or E-kay-yah? I learned mono-cock. But the most important words are Mon choux: my muffin,Mon lapin: my rabbit or Mon ange: my angel, all said with a smile.Your surgery is sure different than ours and when we go in the theater, we don't worry about coming out again. Pierce Quote Selected
Re: Build Quality ? Reply #21 – August 21, 2020, 09:41:43 am C'est un petit Choux mes enfant, Quote Selected
Re: Build Quality ? Reply #22 – August 21, 2020, 12:09:24 pm We've been in lock down too long. Quote Selected
Re: Build Quality ? Reply #23 – August 21, 2020, 12:10:16 pm Quote from: Sven and Kristi – August 20, 2020, 09:29:56 pmAnd if you had family in Denmark like I do, a v is a w. Sometimes a v is an f as in "Folksvagen". Quote Selected
Re: Build Quality ? Reply #24 – August 21, 2020, 01:17:56 pm Quote from: Sven and Kristi – August 21, 2020, 12:09:24 pmWe've been in lock down too long.Agree, brings out the craziness in many of us. Someone backed into me in the grocery store yesterday. Fortunately, our trailer hitch took all of it. I jumped out of the car but the silver Cadillac raced off. I got a partial but the ball took it all. Hope it punctured his bumper.Perhaps we need a day of only Esperanto on the forum?Pierce Quote Selected
Re: Build Quality ? Reply #25 – August 21, 2020, 01:34:24 pm The heat here is keeping me indoors otherwise the lockdown only keeps me working on projects that I never completed when working. Quote Selected