Re: A Simple Four Phrase Types Theory

Philippe Caquant scripsit:

> 1/ enunciative sentences. By such sentences the
> speaker just wants some information to get to the
> addressee?s conscience,
This puzzled me for quite a while, until I recalled that in French
"conscience" equates to both "conscience" and "consciousness" in
English.  It's the latter you want, I think.

> - Une fois ? Deux fois ? Trois fois ? Adjug? !
> (auction)
Anglophone auctioneers say "Going, going, gone, sold to <whomever>".

> - (Whistling River Kwa? main theme) (feeling great)
This tune, called "Colonel Bogey March" ("Colonel Bogey" is a name
for an old-school military officer), actually does have words, which are
*implied* in the context of the film by whistling the tune:

        Hitler, he has just one ball,
        Goering has two, but awfully small,
        Himmler has something sim'lar,
        And Goebbels has no balls at all.

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