Monday, June 22, 2009

BYU in Paris

Salut!

As many of you may already know, Professor Olivier is taking a study abroad group to France this Fall semester. In preparation for the upcoming trip, he has created a blog where all of his students are contributing. It is worth a look. Perhaps it was luck of the draw, but within 30 seconds of browsing this blog I was dying from laughter as I read some examples Professor Olivier offered of American LDS missionaries making some subtle--but significant-- pronunciation errors. For example, I quote: "[said during a prayer] 'Please wound this family with death in their home.' ('...blesser cette famille avec la mort dans leur foyer' instead of ' ...bénir cette famille avec l'amour...')." Just click on the title of this post to see it, or go to: byuinparis.blogspot.com.

Enjoy!