 |
| But not this one. Get your own. |
I'd like to talk to you about French
greetings
so in the clinch you won't be
unprepared.
There's several paths to go down in
these meetings;
deciding which culls bon vivants
from merde.
“Bon jour!”
(good day) can handle any setting.
It
works no matter where or when you are.
But if
night falls and on the town you're heading,
you're
better served by uttering, “Bon soir.”
When saying hi to friends you use la bise
and
touch your cheek to theirs, not quite a kiss.
It's
fine to make that “mwah” sound if you please
But
right, then left cheek's key for social bliss.
One
final tip and then my lesson's through:
the
most informal greeting's just,“Salut!”
What if I want to give each cheek a xerbert? And WHY not the girl above?!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was showing Megan a draft of this, she said, "No one says 'mwah.' Well, you do, but I thought that was just some weird twist you'd decided to put on it."
ReplyDeleteWhat I meant wasn't actually saying mwah, I meant 'make that kissy sound', lightly, that's impossible to spell, so I just said mwah. And since you don't actually touch your lips to their cheek...actually, no. Go for it. I think it'd go over well. Try to record the event in some form.