One of my friends asked me if it was safe to eat shark cooter. Hed started dating a rich girl, and apparently her parents 'were into that kind of thing'
The other day I ran into my buddy from France at the lake.
He was very proud of his collection of rowboats and was eager to show them off.
Pointing to the boats, he said, "This is Un. This is Deux. This is Trois. This is Quatre. This is Six."
I replied, "That's awesome, but where's the 5th one?"
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He put his head down and said, "Cinq."
My family had moved back to Canada after basically growing up in the US. Us kids started learning French in school. One night my ever so clever dad asks us if they had taught us the short story about the tragedy of the three kittens who were on the Titanic. We said "no". "It's a sad story. The Titanic un deux trois quatre cinq"
Funny thing is that even though I'm French-speaking, I never use "hors d'oeuvres". Actually you won't hear it much at all unless in the more expensive restaurants.
We used to pick on my father when he said good morning and it sounded like “messy buckets”. Came out as “messy boo-cuts”, but when you’re slaughtering a language, why would family show you mercy.
Edit: thank you very much. Brain wasn’t working.
Guy asks his French-speaking friend: "Can you tell me what 'je ne sais quoi' means?"
Friend: (shrugs) "I don't know what... I can't say."
Guy: "It's ok, I'll ask somebody else."
I was a precocious reader who first encountered hors d'oeuvres in a book when I was nine years old. In my mental dialogue, I pronounced it 'horse doovers'. You can guess what i thought it meant.
True story (aren't they all?). The instructor was late the second week of French 101. It was a Baptist University so churchy speech and mannerisms would be well understood. While we were waiting, I decided to steal the moment. Holding an open textbook in front of my like a Bible, I solemnly approached the podium in front. "The word for today," I said with reverent, pastoral tone. Then a pause. "Aujourd'hui."
Hors d'oeuvres aren't appetizers (also known as a starter, or entree).
The correct order for a four course dinner is: hors d'oeuvres; appetizers; main course; and then, dessert.
Fyi the terms 'appetizer', 'starter' or 'entree' are interchangeable everywhere in the world aside from the USA (because USA, USA, USA!!!!)
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/2578/full-course-meal.html
I like to translate words from english to my native language (dutch) and then use those words in stead.
For example:
The word tired sounds a lot like the dutch slang word tirette, which means 'zipper'. So when im tired i'll say 'im zipper' in dutch.
in french "egg" is "oeuf", an oeuf sounds like 'enough'. But the dutch word for egg is 'ei' so when I have eaten enough, I' say "i have an egg" but in dutch.
It doesn't work with everyone
How does one use hors d'oeuvres in day to day conversation? Like, is he cracking out the sausage rolls and being like 'here's some horsey duvrees' or is he actually in fine dining on the regular?
I say kay-suh-dill-ah on purpose. Once, that's how i hear it after it being said once in Napoleon Dynamite. That and it drives my friends crazy and they call me the worst Mexican ever (am half Mexican)
I love to purposefully mispronounce French words, but you need to do it around the right people, otherwise they act like its a huge fox pass.
Sock ray blue!
Too lay joule
Touch E.
Sest lass vye
Soo la voo
So funny
Peace day resistance
Yup… I Just tried spelling it also. You got many more letters correct. If only closed captions had been around in the 60s…
Lmao sock ray blue
So funny
Is that similar to fox fur? Edit: My sister was telling everyone her jacket was made out of fox fur 🤣
From a real genuine faux fox I’m sure…
A huge fox paw if it wasn't.
More like fox fox fur
Nice work
My Wii
Did you mean 05 Wii?
I'm pretty sure they meant, "May we?"
Mais Oui what?
Danse, seal voo play
Murky bucket, Silva plate
Call the Mayor!
Seal too play
2nd door on the left.
Entre
For years My father has pronounced it “Oar dewvers” (in a very redneck fashion) and laughs every single time.
In my family, it was always “whore’s ovaries.” Classy, huh?
Horse Doovers for me lmao
One of my friends asked me if it was safe to eat shark cooter. Hed started dating a rich girl, and apparently her parents 'were into that kind of thing'
Maybe not on the first date.
That’s r/whitetrashclassy material.
Sometimes you just have to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and say “sest lah vie”
Say Lobby
Very good. Murky buckets!
Gosh.
Dude....I once said oars de vores instead of hors d'oeuvres.. not even purposefully
We used to say french pimps call it Whors d’oveurs
Or Whores Divorce... I also used to say Horse Ovaries
Horse Dee or Vees
Isnt it?
Mer-cy buc-kles That’s quality.
Yep, I call them Whores Doovrays!
I'll have you know I speak perfect French, mercy bow coop
I drive a coop ford ray.
Last night I wished my in laws good ape tits before dinner. Was not appreciated l.
Duh, you had to tell them bone apple teeth.
Enjoy your gore may food! Osteopetrosis!
Mercy buckets silver plates
Merchy Boo-koops
I might understand that, but Jen says pass.
Horse doovers
Close
However you say it lay bone taps routette.
Fox pass. Lmao.
“Horse divers”
There's a street near hot springs ar called fox pass and it made me laugh every time i saw it.
***YOU RANG???***
Horse doobers
Orderbs
Parler = parlay but don’t tell 🇺🇸
The other day I ran into my buddy from France at the lake. He was very proud of his collection of rowboats and was eager to show them off. Pointing to the boats, he said, "This is Un. This is Deux. This is Trois. This is Quatre. This is Six." I replied, "That's awesome, but where's the 5th one?" - He put his head down and said, "Cinq."
Never forget Cinq, it was a truly great vassel.
Tried to transport too much salad dressing in Spring. The cinqo de mayo.
My family had moved back to Canada after basically growing up in the US. Us kids started learning French in school. One night my ever so clever dad asks us if they had taught us the short story about the tragedy of the three kittens who were on the Titanic. We said "no". "It's a sad story. The Titanic un deux trois quatre cinq"
Why are there never floods in France? Because the water’s always l’eau
😂😂😂
My aunt always says silver plate instead of sil vous plait…
"Mercy Buckets" - Ted Lasso
Grampa always called them whores drawers!
Horse's ovaries was the iteration foisted upon me.
I find one egg is un oeuf.
Just told this to my wife who is a French teacher. She laughed.
Ha-- good one!
As a french-speaking person, I really wonder how an English-speaking person would pronounce "Hors d'oeuvres"!
"or durvz" with the stress on "dur"
Not bad, you just need to invert the r and v sounds, and the final s is silent :) So.... " or duvr" kinda sort of.
Brett Favre does not pronounce it like that.
It would more be "Ordövr" but that might not help much. We have so many letters for so few different sounds in some of our words :D
Yank English just changes it to or d'rv.
Horse divorce. Simple.
Horse doovers in my house.
Or whores doovers depending on company.
Was it a marriage between 2 horses or between a house and a person?
Horse's Doovers
That’s how my mum insists on pronouncing it
*Hmmmmmm?????*
Bone apple tea, my friend.
Ail donte endeurstande ouate youre seilleingue :(
Whores Dee Ovaries!!!
It's Hors Doeveurs, Sean Connery.
If he really said that, wouldn't it be " Horsh Doeveursh?"
Ill devour some whores
Or durrvs
"Whore's ovaries," right?
Both 's' are silent, as they should be :D
Not when spoken in English
I had a co-worker for years who thought he was culturally superior for referring to every appetizer at any restaurant as "whores davores"
Funny thing is that even though I'm French-speaking, I never use "hors d'oeuvres". Actually you won't hear it much at all unless in the more expensive restaurants.
Horse divorce
We used to pick on my father when he said good morning and it sounded like “messy buckets”. Came out as “messy boo-cuts”, but when you’re slaughtering a language, why would family show you mercy. Edit: thank you very much. Brain wasn’t working.
merci beaucoup is supposed to mean thank you very much not good morning? or am i getting something wrong here😂
You are not, I got it wrong
That’s actually “thank you very much “.
Yeah. Not sure where my head was at. Shouldn’t post before coffee
Ordure vv- kinda grosses me out- want t move on t ladies fingers or something
Ordures does mean rubbish/trash in French so that's understandable 😂
Hours devours
Sometimes mispronounced on purpose: horse doovers. No offence intended, mon ami.
My mother used to jokingly call them "ore dee vores".
I've literally heard it said as "horses duvets" before.
Whore derrervzz
With a mouthful of sneering condescension.
I said "whores Dovers" all through my teenage years, thinking I was pronouncing it correctly.
Remove the 'e' and the 's' from both words and you're not bad.
I gotchu
OR-Dervsd as one long word ORDERVS with accent on the der
Invert the R and the V and remove the S, which is silent :>
Whore Dee Overs! 🤣
Horse Dovers
Horses doofers
I can't unhear this xD
Imagine my *chagrin* when I hear Americans and their *penchant* for mispronouncing words of foreign origins
We do the same with the words imported from English into French!
This joke has a certain *Je ne sais pas*. I wish I knew what that meant, but sadly I don’t.
I thought it was Je ne sais qua?
Je ne sais quoi
This joke has a certain _je ne sais quoi_. I don’t know what, it means.
Guy asks his French-speaking friend: "Can you tell me what 'je ne sais quoi' means?" Friend: (shrugs) "I don't know what... I can't say." Guy: "It's ok, I'll ask somebody else."
Ok, well I'm Italian but thx! I did study French but I'd hate to tell u how long ago that was completed!
je ne sais pas, is i dont know
Dammit, take my upvote. XD
I didn't know, asked my friends, they didn't know either.
This morning, I tripped and fell right onto the bread shelf of my local French bakery. I was in a world of pain!
The doover is the most delicious part of the horse, I'm told.
I was a precocious reader who first encountered hors d'oeuvres in a book when I was nine years old. In my mental dialogue, I pronounced it 'horse doovers'. You can guess what i thought it meant.
I was a precious reader to
For years as a kid I thought rendezvous and "ron day voo" were two separate words that meant the same thing.
Horse divorce
“Pretentious? Moi??”
There’s got to be a solution for when your snooty friend says je ne sais quoi but I don’t know what.
Sounds like a real amuse-douche.
Our maybe just a plain douche.
Sacré bleu!
Terrible.
Go to Baton Rouge for Mardi Gras
Lay bone taps rulet
Pretentious? Moi?
Sacker Blue
You really think that is snooty.
Horsey Doovers
Saw it on a commercial a long time ago and still use it ….. “I’ll have a glass of your best wit- tay “. “Sir do you mean white ?”
right to the beginning eh?
we say horses dovers ( dicks)/
donkey shit for that joke
Monge la merde
This is the first joke in this sub that I’ve actually laughed at in a long while
Now it's fing r r food and you have to lick other people's doovers.
True story (aren't they all?). The instructor was late the second week of French 101. It was a Baptist University so churchy speech and mannerisms would be well understood. While we were waiting, I decided to steal the moment. Holding an open textbook in front of my like a Bible, I solemnly approached the podium in front. "The word for today," I said with reverent, pastoral tone. Then a pause. "Aujourd'hui."
This joke definitely does amuse... amuse bouche, if you will
Hors d'oeuvres aren't appetizers (also known as a starter, or entree). The correct order for a four course dinner is: hors d'oeuvres; appetizers; main course; and then, dessert. Fyi the terms 'appetizer', 'starter' or 'entree' are interchangeable everywhere in the world aside from the USA (because USA, USA, USA!!!!) https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/2578/full-course-meal.html
I will sleep on a pallyarse because nobbyless obligay.
I like to translate words from english to my native language (dutch) and then use those words in stead. For example: The word tired sounds a lot like the dutch slang word tirette, which means 'zipper'. So when im tired i'll say 'im zipper' in dutch. in french "egg" is "oeuf", an oeuf sounds like 'enough'. But the dutch word for egg is 'ei' so when I have eaten enough, I' say "i have an egg" but in dutch. It doesn't work with everyone
I avoid foreign words, they just aren't my forte
Mercy buckets moon cherry.
How does one use hors d'oeuvres in day to day conversation? Like, is he cracking out the sausage rolls and being like 'here's some horsey duvrees' or is he actually in fine dining on the regular?
Q:What is the soup du jour A:Oh that's the soup of the day
Ore-dev-ores Feel-et Mig-non Qua-sa-Dilla
Feeling a Minion. Say it in a French accent.
I say kay-suh-dill-ah on purpose. Once, that's how i hear it after it being said once in Napoleon Dynamite. That and it drives my friends crazy and they call me the worst Mexican ever (am half Mexican)
A lady I knew called them horses doofers
Isn't it kind of a faux-pas to do that?
I know foxes have paws, but I can't find a single doover on this horse.
What a douche baguette
The spelling for hors d'oeuvres always looks like "horse devourer" to my English-speaking brain.
Does he drive a BMW and bitch about how the traffic wouldn't be this bad if we were on the Autoban?
FU - pardon my French
Being french, I'm enjoying the lecture of those commentary.
Whore's doovers
Well sack lablue doo tabernack du powersaw