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Le Guide Galactique

I bought someone a copy in French last year as a xmas prezzie. French bloke with a sense of humour. He and his family lapped it up and bought the rest themselves!

Isn't it something like 'Le Guide de la Galaxie de Auto-Stoppeur/Auto-Stoppeuse'?

Oh well, late again... I suppose it's good practice for my French exams...

Nah, they didn't go with the 'hitch-hiking' bit...

don't see why...

'Le Guide du Routard Galactique'

'Le Guide du Routard de la Galaxie' even.

The French guy said he'd really like to see some of the names of people and places in English coz he felt sure 'something had been lost in translation'. But overall they seemed to come through the language barrier more or less unharmed.

ok, i've got a good one for you, where you can use your 'cela':

"Merci. Je n'aime pas tellement cela."

"No thankyou. I'm not terribly keen on ratatouille."

obviously, the foodstuff in question depends on the situation, but you can't beat that for a polite get-out when faced with something you definitely *don't* wanna be eating!

Goes down better than 'Blurgh!' with the French housewife who is proudly serving up the dish she slaved over all afternoon, too.

Not too sure about the 'grosse pile de m**de one...

not very French and not very nice.

The most important french phrase you will ever need is -

Parle plus lentement s'il vous plait.

Speak more slowly please.

Thankyou!

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