Liaisons heureuses: Interview with Tatty Macleod
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- On the occasion of Alumni Day, organised by Campus France UK, we met with comedian Tatty Macleod and asked her a few questions on the Entente Cordiale and the Franco-British relationship.
This interview is part of the Liaisons heureuses series celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale.
I classify as non-lingual. I speak French, German and English equally bad.
My best friend from University and I, we are still very close, used to jump between Swiss German, German, English, French and Italian. It was a lot of fun and for any situation we could just use the word or the term from the language that was best fitting. We would then also play with synonyms and homonyms across languages In other words, if one word in language A is pronounced the same way as a word with a completely different meaning in language B, we would substitute the word from B in language A, creating a language that nobody else could understand. You really had to be somewhat fluent in all the languages and very much on your toes constantly for it to work. It’s a lot of fun. It also works well with Japanese and Italian because both are very vowel oriented and Japanese has a ton of homonyms. Soto in Japanese means outside and sotto in Italian means underneath. This opens a Pandora’s box of fun to be had while annoying other people who get confused and cannot follow. Baka means stupid in Japanese and enough in Amharic. That question is enough! You got it? We were total brats.
Concorde. I know it came to a bad end but it was an amazing Anglo French achievement that hasn’t been bettered.
I love Tatty. She's like a window into being French.
Weren't they both Irish? Never mind, I agree you can't beat Irish Littérature
She’s great
Slimani is a very good choice !
The French figure I would like to be: Michel de Montaigne.
Oh là là! C'est trop cool!
I don't think there's a French figure I'd liked to have been.