>>>>>By the way, ask a French speaker to say "The seal in the pool". I mean the marine mammal and a swimming pool. Don't be offended by how it sounds.
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>>>>I don't know the french for "seal" but "... est dans la piscine" - that sounds naughty, right? :-)
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>>>Not "is in the pool", just "in the pool".
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>>>The marine mammal seal is spelled Phoque. I leave it to those able to keep a straight face to pronounce that loudly during High Tea with the Ladies. :)
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>>Of course, I did know that but had forgotten. Still: "La phoque dans la piscine", despite the odd word sounding like English, doesn't make sense as an English expression.
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>True. If an English speaker said "PHOQUE - Excuse my French!", that now makes sense! :)
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>>How about marcel DuChamp's (the dadaist) Mona Lisa (the one with the moustache painted on). He labelled "his" work L.H.O.O.Q which, pronounced in French (makes a French pun) ...
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>Which I'm not catching, I'm sorry to say.

The letters, pronounced in French, sound like "el ash o o kyu", which in French sounds like "Ell a chaud cul" - "She has a hot bottom".