Angelina Jolie in a wet T-shirt competition (What every git needs)
While it is true that I love the language of Shakespeare above all others, I have to admit that the French language is quite beautiful as well.
Granted, compared to my Dutch mother tongue any other language becomes the oral equivalent of Angelina Jolie in a wet T-shirt competition but anyone who ever listened to Jacques Brel’s ‘Ne me quitte pas’ will probably agree that the French language can do pretty pretty damn well.
It’s not the easiest language to master, of course – but then, neither is Dutch and learning the latter won’t get you an invitation to any half-decent wet T-shirt do.
So, if you were planning a romantic weekend in some rural paradise, French would serve you better than Dutch.
There’s an old joke that starts with the question “What’s the main difference between French and Dutch?”
The answer: When you say ‘I hate you’ in French, it sounds like ‘I love you’. When you say ‘I love you’ in Dutch it sounds like ‘I hate you.’
Anyway, if you plan for a romantic short trip to France it would be useful to learn a few French words.
Like the word for a holiday home, which is ‘gîte’.
Yes, I know what the word looks like but it does NOT mean ‘a place for gits’.
Well, okay, sometimes it does – as the following story shows:
“A new gîte in Nantes offers guests the chance to live as a rodent for the night - complete with fur costumes and a romantic hamster wheel for two.”
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