I’d like that, learned something.
Learnt nothing, in french you would say “Sacre Bleu”, lit. “Blue [the act of consecrating]”.
Blue was the colour of Saint Martin, so instead of swearing on god, you would swear on the canonisation of st. Martin, in a manner removed from the actual thing. Only English speakers use “sacré bleu” as a vaguely-french sounding thing.
Saying sacré [person] makes sense somewhat, but you would use it like “there’s my boy, way to go!”, not as a “holy shit” exclamation.
Now all I can think of is Patrick Warburton doing this voice over in the films.
Perfect.
I would pay like $10 to hear Patrick Warburton say “Sacré Bleu” which isn’t a ton of money but how much would you pay anyone else to say anything else?
SoUE is better than HP. I said what I said and I’ll die on this hill.
I mean, the prose is certainly better. Rowling is unimaginative and repetitive in her use of language. The number of times she reuses phrases (like, “Ron’s untidy scrawl,”) is criminal. She’s a lot like Agatha Christie; great concepts, mundane execution.
HP has the better film franchise though. ASOUE just had the Carrey film, which was alright but did not follow the books and left a LOT of mystery from the books off
the show was really good…until season 3. my favorite character being reduced to a single laugh and a painting was the nail in the coffin, and the finale was just bad
Was A Series of Unfornate Events my first exposure to postmodern writing?
Having never read it, it reminds me vaguely of Douglas Adams
