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AlephBey
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 Message 9 of 10
20 January 2012 at 12:20pm | IP Logged 
I'm somewhat surprised the all-too-famous "My tailor is rich" escaped their attention.
The French Wikipedia article on the
phrase
lists a few other such seemingly strange choices of sentences for language
courses, like 'Mister Khettat is an architect'.
Apparently an equivalent for Englishmen learning French is «Où est la plume de ma tante?»
('Where is my aunt's pen?').

Edited by AlephBey on 20 January 2012 at 12:23pm

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 Message 10 of 10
20 January 2012 at 11:22pm | IP Logged 
Eddie Izzard: Où est la plume de ma
tante
(with Swedish subs).

It was also the name of a French bookshop in Stockholm, which is sadly no longer with us.

/aloysius
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