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Aug 18 09 2:03 PM
htobago wrote: I must say I keep forgetting that English is not Callisto's first language - whenever I remember, I am hugely impressed with his command of the language! "Chouette" is pretty much a generic term of approbation in French, so can mean good, great, cool, awesome, lovely, cute, wonderful...whatever! Technically it means 'owl'. When I lived in France many years ago people used to say 'vachement chouette' - 'vachement' being slang for 'very'. But 'vache' means 'cow', so in my family when we wanted (in English) to say that something was 'very good' or 'very cool', we would say 'cowly owl'!
Some words when spoken can't be taken back
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