atchoum Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 This summer I discovered that a colleague from another university lives just round the corner. I had known him as a teenager, as his mother is an academic – I knew her both as a professor and later as a colleague, but he has had a meteoric career in his own right. We had coffee together a couple of times during summer and I was able to observe that since his teenage years – he is 32 now - he has grown tall (well over 180 – and over 6 feet), his square chin affirmed, and generally very handsome - more like an old style tennis player than an academic. We have been working together more, and he came to dinner for the first time last night. When he arrived he announced he had “a little cold”, though initially there was not much evidence of that, though he did cough from time to time. Then he excused himself and went and fetched a small packet of Kleenex from his leather jacket hanging in the hall and blew his nose on one. During drinks before dinner – which went on for some time – it became obvious that he had what doctors here call a rhinopharyngite, though more in the pharynx, as he was coughing more than blowing – more a throat clearing cough than a hack however. He had just had a bit of a cough though when he inserted - so to speak – a sneeze – a short “hi TCHihh”!, completely uncovered and unstifled, even though I was only an armlength away. During the meal he continued blowing his nose and clearing his throat, but there was one more sneeze – a more full force : “ah RASSHH !” Nice sneezes, very little body movement involved and not very loud, but so completely assumed. And he finished his packet of 10 kleenex!Always nice to know how the people you work with sneeze! Link to comment
juliette Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 What a sexy obs! Thanks atchoum!Don't suppose you'd post something in French would you ... something in French about sneezing... OMG....!cyberhugsjuliette Link to comment
countless Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 'Je suis un peu enrhumé ... ' Wouldn't that be hot ?No, many of us would not understand ... No good idea.Like your posts about academics a lot ! Link to comment
juliette Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 'Je suis un peu enrhumé' ... thank you thank you thank you. Now THAT is the kind of phrase I want to add to my french vocab...!!!! Link to comment
atchoum Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 Merci des remarques. Il ne faut pas me tenter ! Je n'écrirais plus qu'en français. Contrairement aux autres non-anglophones, j'ai été initié dans ma langue au fétichisme de l'éternuement, grâce au minitel et au contact avec un autre éternuephile qui partage mes sensibilités, et de ce fait il m'est sans doute plus facile d'en parler en français.Just one detail to add - even with the cold (he announced 'j'ai un petit rhume' (petit, mon oeil!)) he did not cover his sneezes at all. And yet it was done with complete decorum. Link to comment
Arthul Panel Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 salut, c'est bien je me voyais le seul français du forum, mais finalement ce forum est plus international qu'on le croit ! Link to comment
atchoum Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 Tiens! et un kangourou comme mascotte ! J'ai passé quinze ans en Australie, moi ! et toi ? Link to comment
Arthul Panel Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 nan nan juste fan de ces animaux, et je reve d'aller en australie d'ailleur ! Link to comment
juliette Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Mon tres cher atchoum.... merci!!!!! Wow.... éternuephile ... quel bon mot!!!!! Je suis un peu muet a ce moment mais je vais travailler dur pour essayer de vous ecrir un bon obs en francais... direz moi, s'il vous plait, ce que vous aimez mieux dans les obs?! Ou peut etre preferez une petite histoire??? Merci encore. Francais + eternuer ... quelle combinaison ... je m'evanouirai maintainant... a bientot mes chers...juliette Link to comment
Guest shiranui Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Aw, that's a totally yummy obs. Thanks for sharing Link to comment
elements Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 wow guys! I am loving the french! J'etudie en peu en ecole..as you can probably tell from that phrase..I took french in school but I had to drop it because my school made me...it was stupid, but I LOVE the language and wish I could get involved again! I was so happy to see after these years that I still understood most of your conversation!Thanks! Link to comment
count tiszula Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 Se peut-ilqu'on va faire les obsides en francais? D'ailleurs, comme j'ai deja dit, mon expression favorite a present est 'qu'il y a quelque chose qui me chatouille le nez'. Je ne m'attendais pas a ce que mes fantaisies francaises ne fussent acheveees ; cest a dire avant que je ne rencontrasse notre amie canadienne.Aux eternuephiles les eternuatrices! Link to comment
atchoum Posted October 22, 2006 Author Share Posted October 22, 2006 J'aurais dû mettre "éternuephile" entre guillemets. Saint-Google ne connaît pas, pas plus que "éternophile". C'était notre langage à nous, nous autres pionniers de l'éternuephilie/éternophilie francophone. Et salut, Kangoo ! maintenant je me sens moins seul ! Link to comment
countless Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 This is the kind of stuff schools will never teach (similar problem with sex related expressions ). Atchoum, it would be lovely if you could make a small list of French words related to the fetish, and let us have the English translation. Ca sera très gentil ... Link to comment
atchoum Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 He gave me his cold !!!Last night I started blowing my nose an sneezing and before long it was obvious that I'd caught P's cold! Serves me right for drooling over his sneezes! Actually I saw him today but he was only coughing. His rhinopharyngite was all pharyngite... and mine all rhino...!To comply with Countless's request, and more idiomatically than I could do in English"Il m'a refilé son rhume (putain de rhume)"which also reminds me that you can say'Il m'a éternué dessus" - he sneezed on me (though he didn't !)"Il se mouchait tout le temps." He was blowing his nose all the time. "Il tenait un de ces rhumes" .... he had a big cold (???)"Il n'arrêtait pas de renifler "... he couldnt stop sniffing.etc.... Link to comment
Sneesee Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 First of all, I love reading all of the responses in French, very cool! And secondly, I love it when guys say, "I have a little cold." It doesn't matter what language it's in to me, I love that phrase! And atchoum, I'm so sorry you caught his cold from those two uncovered sneezes. (NO, I'M NOT REALLY SORRY! I was only kidding!) I would catch a cold like that from a yummy obs and a good-looking guy like him! Hope it's not too bad for ya!A tes souhaits, atchoum! (Again, not sure if I spelled it right!) Link to comment
countless Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Thanks for that expressions, Atchoum !So sorry to hear you caught his cold ( ).Writing about it could make you feel better, did you know ? Why not give it a try ... Link to comment
count tiszula Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 He gave me his cold !!!Last night I started blowing my nose an sneezing and before long it was obvious that I'd caught P's cold! Serves me right for drooling over his sneezes! Actually I saw him today but he was only coughing. His rhinopharyngite was all pharyngite... and mine all rhino...!To comply with Countless's request, and more idiomatically than I could do in English"Il m'a refilé son rhume (putain de rhume)"which also reminds me that you can say'Il m'a éternué dessus" - he sneezed on me (though he didn't !)"Il se mouchait tout le temps." He was blowing his nose all the time. "Il tenait un de ces rhumes" .... he had a big cold (???)"Il n'arrêtait pas de renifler "... he couldnt stop sniffing.etc....Zut zut zut. Ca me rappelle la recherche des eternuments perdus. Des conversations comme..,."Qu'as-tu?" "Rhume de foin." [What's the matter? HAY FEVER.}Now, for the spray-lovers amongst us, what would be the terms for such matters; both kinds, and how dispersed [or dispensed].?I think you would say something like " He had a hell of a cold" ; a bit stronger than "he had one of those colds."And I love "putain de rhume"! I suppose " a bitch of a cold". Link to comment
atchoum Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 Thanks, guys! The cold's almost over. Funny, but colds I catch from other people don't seem to be as virulent as colds I catch on my own (which is stupid, because you must always catch a cold from someone).Spraying.... hmmmm!There is the expression "postillonner", for spraying when talking or coughing... or sneezing. des éternuements postillonnants... ? tu sais tu postillonnes quand tu éternues....? Link to comment
Prodigy Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Gaaaah, merci pour les obs en français! You made me remember just how much I miss speaking French every day. Link to comment
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