Original ID : 1914 Created On : 2003-04-16 Last Modified : 2005-05-01
An exclamation of anger, surprise, enjoyment, pain, or arousal. Found in the Bibliobus, a French reading compendium style thing much used in the 90s. This may seem unlikely as an impromptu exclamation, but then French ducks don’t even go quack, they just say “zut”, or something, whilst smoking a cigar.
katrina b
I think you’ll find that french ducks say ‘quang.’
On a lighter note, french dogs say ‘waf waf’. They don’t say the phonetically similar ‘wife wife’, although it would be folly to imagine that a dog would be able to make such a distinction.
Davy
Kiki (dog) and Miquet (cat) in the ‘French for Today’ books appeared to say nothing but ‘Zut’ when they failed to catch each other, or mice, or when they fell off a chair.
Ginger S
More things that French animals can’t get right…
Cats go “miaou”, which is fair enough, but dogs go “ouaf ouaf”, ducks go “coin coin”, and french owls say ‘hibboo hibboo’. Not only that - in the Bibliobus books French emergency vehicles went “pin pon pin pon…”
The French are all on some kind of crazy drugs.
squek b
The older of us remember that aiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee! is actually the noise made in the ace Commando books by the evil scheming Germans as they got utterly shot by the square-jawed Brits. The only other words the Germans uttered were ‘Actung Spitfeur’, ‘Hande Hoche’, ‘Englander Schwein’ and ‘Gott in Himmel’.
That Germans made such a vowel-heavy nasal whine in their death throes made them big wet pansies. A stout Englishman dying in the field would bellow “WHOOAARGGGHH”. In days of heavier casualties, it was like being trapped in the Brian Blessed dimension.
(Further discussion http://www.disappointment.com/randomacts/acts_comicdeath.htm. Good grief. - Log)
[anon]
Kiki and Miquet would also politely exclaim ‘Au secours! Un voleur!’ when Madame Bertillon’s purse was snatched.
Stupid bitch should have seen it coming. The stripy jumper and swag bag said it all.