hey frenchy!

[JB88]

i have a question for all french speakers please.

how would i write... "this is not a wave." in french.

(as in, a wave in the ocean)

i am making a photo montage that is inspired by a magritte painting witch is entitled "this is not a pipe."

thank you in advance for your help.

88

[Mark Luper]

Originally posted by JB88
i have a question for all french speakers please.

how would i write... "this is not a wave." in french.

(as in, a wave in the ocean)

i am making a photo montage that is inspired by a magritte painting witch is entitled "this is not a pipe."

thank you in advance for your help.

88

I get "ce n'est pas une vague" through babel fish

Word.

Mark

[JB88]

yep.   came up the same on google...but i want to make sure...dont want to say something like "this is not an eclair"

[Mark Luper]

Though not fluent in French by any stretch of the imagination I do know enough that I beleive that phrase to be correct.

Word.

Mark

[JB88]

perhaps..but the painting that i am paying homage to is

cici n'est pas une pipe...rather than ce...  so i have concerns you see.

perhaps a frog will roll around here sometime soon and prove your theory correct.

that would be nice.



(perhaps i should have titled the thread FREE CHEESE...heh)

[Mark Luper]

That's cool.



Mark

[Sweet2th]

ceci n'est pas une vague


I got that from

http://www.freetranslation.com

[JB88]

the painting is actually entitled...the treason of images.  but the text on the painting is what i am being inspired by.   thought i should set the record straight while i wait for some francophilillian speech master to come in and tell me how it is.

not to say that i do not appreciate the further assistance sweet2th.  i do.  thank you very much sir.  but i need confirmation.  an absolute.  a final ruling by a native specimen.

anyone seen one around here?  

[Sweet2th]

Originally posted by JB88
the painting is actually entitled...the treason of images.  but the text on the painting is what i am being inspired by.   thought i should set the record straight while i wait for some francophilillian speech master to come in and tell me how it is.

not to say that i do not appreciate the further assistance sweet2th.  i do.  thank you very much sir.  but i need confirmation.  an absolute.  a final ruling by a native specimen.

anyone seen one around here?  

Let me call Steph, he is a French Canadian Hillbillie who lives in Montreal and speaks French  fluently.

[DiabloTX]

Vous calmer l'Américain laid !

[JB88]

Originally posted by DiabloTX
Vous calmer l'Américain laid !

You to calm the ugly American?

[Latrobe]

I took a french class last year but we only got through greetings, telling time, introducing, asking stuff so i just speak a WEEE bit of french sorry


if i remember correctly "est" is "is"

you put "ne" before the main verb and "pas" after it to mean "not" (take the 'e' off "ne" if the first letter of the main verb is a vowel and put a ')

i believe "à" is "a" (alt 133 to get the weird A symbol)

sorry i can't help you with THIS and WAVE but putting this together you get
THIS n' est pas à WAVE - hope it helps a little

[JB88]

i thought this board was crawling with french peoples?  what gives?

[moot]

Both would work.  I'd need the context or your intended nuance of inflection to be 100% SURE but otherwise they're the same.
99% sure you ought to use ceci if you're recalling the pipe painting/caption.  Ce could be prefered in certain very artsy split-hairing nuances that somehow resonate very well with your particular painting, but now we're down in the micropercentages scale.

That'll be 499.99€ and a hot canadian blonde.

[Angus]

Pardonnez-moi monsieur, mais ce ne'st pas une vague