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=========================================================================<br><div style="text-align: left;"><br>From: <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Events" 2008.04.02 (07) [D]<br><br></span><div id="1enf" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div>> From:
<span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br>> Subject: LL-L
"Events"<br>>
Beste Roger,</div>
</div><div>> Een goede vriend van mij is
de film [<em>Bienvenue chez les ch'tis</em>] gaan zien en vond hem echt
hilarisch. Ook in Frankrijk zou hij serieus scoren</div>
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<div><font size="2">1. I
have seen the film this Saturday afternoon in the Brussels
UGC.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="2">The
story is about a postman, lying for getting an assignment at the méditerannean,
and as punishment is sent to the terrible North. His wife is staying home, and
thinks her husband is suffering terribly in the barbaric North. It's not
that bad over there, but she doesn't believe him. Since her compassion has a
beneficial effect on their relation, he starts feeding her belief it is
terrible. Until the moment she comes visiting him in the North, and finally
finds the truth. But it all ends happily.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="2">Actually
it is the traditional scenario of the comedy plays often performed by local
people in village theatre.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">It start
with a lie for a small issue. For covering and maintaining the lie
complicated constructions are set up. But these create new
problems..</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="2">Linguistically local people in the film talk with
"<strong>Picard"</strong> coloration, most important is the consonant shift of
the French "si" into "chi":</font></div>
<div><font size="2">"<strong>le sien</strong>" (belonging to him) becomes "<strong>le
chien</strong>" (the dog).</font></div>
<div><font size="2">This
causes quite some misunderstandings, and when our postman tries to integrate and
imitates, he makes the consonant shift in cases where it is not done locally,
causing new misunderstandings.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="2">A
curious thing for me is when I hear people from <strong>Holland
</strong>learning French, I often hear them pronouncing similarely. (<strong>sj
</strong>in Dutch is pronounced like <strong>ch </strong>in
French)</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="2">Belgians
(as well Walloons as Northerners) are more easily recognized by the way they
pronounce the <strong>W</strong>.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Wallon
is pronounced rather <strong>Vallon</strong> by the
French</font></div>
<div><font size="2">but rather in the direction of "<strong>Ouallon</strong>" by the
Belgians (<strong>Ou</strong> standing for the Dutch <strong>oe</strong> or the
German <strong>u</strong>)</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="2">2. The
film starts momentarely every hour in one of the underground movie rooms of the
GMC. The GMC is in the almost empty (because of closed shops) shopping center
"Toison d'Or". This is a bit curious. Just at the outside of the Guldenvlieslaan
(Av. Toisin d'Or), part of the little ring, there are almost 3
adjacent shopping centers:</font></div>
<div><font size="2">from
West to East:</font></div>
<div><font size="2">- the
vibrant "Louize"</font></div>
<div><font size="2">- the
death "Toison d'Or" (except for the GMC)</font></div>
<div><font size="2">- the
"Ixelles" (Elsene)</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="2">3. The
latter links the Elsenesteenweg with the Waverse steenweg. It's pure
"<strong>Matonge</strong>". All shops are African, I guess half of them are
hairdress shops, a lot others have traditional African clothing. I bought a
"Bakolo Miziki" CD at one of the shops, pure Congo music: a pretty and varied
rythmic music, and very articulated singing voices, stressing a bit like
children do.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/bankolo-miziki-vol-2?cat=entertainment" target="_blank">http://www.answers.com/topic/bankolo-miziki-vol-2?cat=entertainment</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><a href="http://www.sternsmusic.com/disk_info.php?id=ng048" target="_blank">http://www.sternsmusic.com/disk_info.php?id=ng048</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">I tried
some food in an African bar-restaurant called "Beverly Hills" at the corner
of the Waverse steenweg and the Anoulstraat. It was very
good.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">I
got <strong>tilapia</strong> fried with a tasty crusty skin, presented
under a cover of strips of sweet paprikas, some strips of hot pepper and little
onion parts, it all served with black-fried slices of
banana.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matonge" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matonge</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matonge" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matonge</a></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Roger</font></div></div>
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