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Je tu deteste

tags: Bros 1962, conversation, darned French, family, niece 1992

Niece (teenage): “I HATE YOU”

Bros: “do you know how to say that in French?”

Niece: “Je tu deteste”

Bros: “shouldn’t that be Je vous deteste?”

Neice: “NO, you are tu and I hate you”

By this stage I’ve fallen off my chair giggling and started dribbling tea on my woolly jumper (It was cold in England). During my 4 day stay I managed to avoid my niece’s wrath without ducking or walking into any nearby walls.

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This scribble was published on Sunday, March 25th, 2007. You can follow any banter on this scribble with the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

one wonderful muse on “Je tu deteste”

Scrag Head writes:
April 23rd, 2007
I think the correct form of address there should have been

â€œJe te dÃ©testeâ€

rather than

â€œJe tu dÃ©testeâ€
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