I think both are acceptable: "on ne peut", or "on ne peut pas". What say our French participant on this forum?
Well, as somebody who learned French for 7 years in school I can tell you, that the negation is always built out of ne and pas. Omitting pas would be slang if anything. Heck, my daily read are French comic books (Michel Vaillant, Buck Danny), just to stay au courant.
Correction: Many people (if not most),absolutely HATE unwanted media attention. The media like to corner people at the most inconvenient moment; then twist everything they are told. In some instance they will make up stories, spread false rumours, speculate or raise false flag. Unfortunately it's part and parcel from being exposed to them in sport, politics, courts, etc ... I totally understand and approve of people who refuse to cooperate with the media. So, Well done Lance !!
I checked the quote on Wikipedia before posting, so maybe they are at fault. I lost my collection of Michel Vaillant and Buck Danny comics through too many moves. They must be in a loft somewhere, God knows where.
Lost my collection (in German) many decades ago. But: On my last trip to Paris I went to one of their fabulous comic book stores (absolutely unbelievable, even if you don't want to buy anything, just checking it out is cool) and bought entire books: They combine several magazines into one thick, heavy book. Filled my suitcase with those and now have enough to read for a lifetime. That said, I'll do the same again on my next Paris trip next year.
I followed my mother and discovered French at 13, partly learning the language reading des bandes déssinées , mostly Tintin and Blake & Mortimer, but also those in Spirou and Pilote mags. Later, at the boarding school in Belgium, our tutor was teaching us through songs to get used to different accents and intonations. So we spend hours listening to Aznavour, Edith Piaf, Jean Ferrat, Adamo, etc, trying to catch words, and decypher sentences. It was an interesting method to learn a language, and I made quick progress. When I was living in Paris (1978/1980), I used to visit Librairie Gibert on the Boul' Mich (Boulevard Saint Michel) to buy the latest comics in these collections (Michel Vaillant, Michel Tanguy, Buck Danny, Barberousse, etc ...). I don't know if that shop still exists. OMG, I completely forgot this thread is about Lance Stroll !!
LOL So much to relate to, but I'll try not to further derail the Stroller thread. PS: Stick with French from Paris. I made the mistake of getting a CD from La Chicane (band from Montreal) and barely understood anything. Celine Dione has probably the cleanest pronunciation.
Good luck understanding any French in Quebec Canada. Montreal is barely ok but as you get away into logging country it is totally its own language. The slang is crazy and all the cursing seems to be tied to religion
Quebecois French is a provicial speech from Brittany that hasn't benefited from any new vocabulary over the centuries (mostly in the technical and scientific fields), but kept the 16th century strong accent. This makes it almost incomprehensible for the average French.
Yeah but see people actually like Raikkonen and he has fans. And well, also substantial racing success. That’s the difference.
Red Bull has gone Albon, Gasly, Ricciardo, Perez, Lawson, and are likely just riding it out with Tsunoda. Many of them are highly valued elsewhere and proven winners, so they have tried to find teammates to score points alongside Max. In fact they prematurely fired Albon and Gasly because they held them to expectations that in turn were completely unrealistic. Now look how they have done in their careers. Regardless who the #2 is at Red Bull, Max has carried that team by himself so they still got the success. In 2023 they didn't even need a second driver. Aston Martin on the other hand has let Lance cruise along year after year with no success and no improvement. They don't focus on driver that's actually good and can get results, they continue to build around a loser. The fact that directive comes straight from the top in Lawrence proves that team doesn't care about winning.
Image Unavailable, Please Login Voila monsieur! What's really funny about the Comic book heroes is that they never age. Michel Vaillant has been in F1 since the fifties. Same goes for Buck Danny who started in WW2 and ended up flying modern jets in the cold war. Jeunesse eternelle.
I actually asked "the" Maître d' at the Frontenac, if French was taught in Canada as the French do in school, and he said yes, but if they spoke it properly, they'd be the laughing stock around town. Sort of a revolutionary act of disdain against the master. Not unlike slavery in the ole' South. Or the idiotic, 'separatist' Catalunyans that think they're above (better) than all of the rest of Spain, and refuse to speak 'proper Spanish' This was confirmed by many others, much to my wife's outrage about my fwd.ness. And no, if you speak French, you can understand, and so can they. It is awfully peculiarly pronounced though. I have had Canadians at the farm, in El Salvador, and they speak awful English, and worse French. Mind you, not extremely cultured, nor polite kind. More of the 'all inclusive' stay package deal. C'est la vie, eh?
I must react to that !! What you call "proper Spanish" is in fact Castillan, the language of the Kingdom of Castille, that other Spanish regions were forced to adopt when the country was unified, that Catalans have always resisted. Catalonia existed before before Spain, as a prosperous region with its own institutions, culture and language. So it's no surprise that Catalonia, the most industrious, developed and educated region in Spain wants to keep its language, to the point of seeking independence ! Catalans are not stupid but very proud of their heritage, they provide the largest part of Spain GDP and support the rest of the country, but they have been subjugated and exploited since Spain reunification.
Who would have thought the Stroll would lead us all to such an educational journey. The kid's skills are incredible
Hmm. You sure? But he always made a big deal about that region. Which is why his helmet has the light blue colors. I'm no expert but I thought he was proud to represent that area.
Well, William, if I said Castilian, everybody would think that I’m living in the 14th century. we normally, in Latin America, call it Spanish. Español. Spanish language, at school, it is called Castellano, which is really the proper way of calling the language. But it is an archaic way of saying do you speak Spanish or do you speak Castilian? The Catalanes, are ridiculously territorial, there are many of the regions in Spain, that are autonomous, which leads to a really shabby dysfunctional country. It is as if California would become a separatist movement from rest of the union, as the Catalonians would wish from Spain. And by the way, they are not the most educated region in Spain. Their beef, is that they pay more taxes than the rest of the Regions, so they ere p.o.'d. Ever been to Madrid? Or Castilla? They (Catalanes) are ultras, nationalistic to the point of ridiculous, and some would not even travel to "Spain", which they are all from. As far as Italian goes, it’s roots are Latin, and yes, they did start off in Florence way later on, but we’re not gonna get into 2000 years of history, which is a little bit too long. Regards, Alberto
Spain is a big country, so they have many "dialects". For example in Galiza, close to the north of Portugal, they speak very similarly to us Portuguese. Of course to most of us Portuguese, especialy in the north, Spanish is very intuitive (i learned to speak it properly at a very youg age, because we could access the spanish television, so it was very easy). Of course we understand them better tahn they understand us, because Portuguese is a bit more complexe with a lot more sounds, this kinda help us to to learn other languages with some ease, as well as the fact that we put subtitles on foreign movies, instead of putting some bloke speaking in our native language.
I know quite a bit about Spain, a country that I visited at least once a year and sometimes more for the last ... 55 years with very few exceptions (Covid). One of my daughter has lived there for the last 20 years, running her business in Barcelona and the Balearic Islands. Yes, Catalans are quite chauvinistic about their region, but it's true that Catalonia is the economic locomotive of Spain for which they get very little recognition from other regions and the government in Madrid . Their universities are renowned in Europe. Because of its prosperity, many Spaniards from poorer regions come to Catalonia for work, but Catalans prefer to recruit Moroccans and Colombians than Spaniards ! They are very industrious and business-minded, which is why many Brits get on well with them.
