L Anglais It Is Not The Joy

[Anton Redman]

Great book - read the first 20 pages in a Bordeaux Book Shop -- before deciding to pay for it --- just as I was arrested for trying to translate shoplifting.

Thought there was a thread here about it ?? ?

 

[mrsmop]

I onced got chased down the street for reading (for maybe 20-30 seconds) an english newspaper in france without paying for it, he caught up with me and demanded to know why I was stealing from him. ( of course - I'd already put the newspaper back before I left the shop).

If you touch it you have to pay for it (for some sellers, not all - of course).

[Clair]

I've been wondering what this was all about, then clicked... [:)]

L'anglais ? It is not the joy ! : Une desperate teacher is raconting

(literal translation of the French colloquial expression 'C'est pas la joie ')

[Anton Redman]

Thanks for the link apart from the preface the whole book is a list of  literal English translation, French Phrase then correct English version for instance :

A dog of stop - Un Chien d'arret - A pointer

To make the beautiful - Faire le beau - To sit up and beg.

[Cjb]

This seems to be similar to another book "Sky, my husband" - "Ciel, mon mari" which looks at the bizarre outcomes one encounters when literally translating between the two languages.

[Christine Animal]

Looks like an easy way to make money to me.  I never understood the success of that Sky My Husband.  [6]