Pocket mnemonics...
May. 29th, 2011 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpFinally, after many years, it was high time to definitively nail down the difference between the French verbs pleurer (to cry) and pleuvoir (to rain), and it occurred to me:
You can see (voir) the rain. You cannot see your own tears.
(At least, not without a mirror. :^)
Also, to better understand the difference between the verbs pécher (to sin) and pêcher (to fish), which consists in the difference between an aigue accent (which goes up and stops), and a circumflex (which goes up and down):
Sins go up to heaven, but when a fish jumps from the water, it goes up and then down.
More to say about mnemonics later, maybe.
Cheers...
You can see (voir) the rain. You cannot see your own tears.
(At least, not without a mirror. :^)
Also, to better understand the difference between the verbs pécher (to sin) and pêcher (to fish), which consists in the difference between an aigue accent (which goes up and stops), and a circumflex (which goes up and down):
Sins go up to heaven, but when a fish jumps from the water, it goes up and then down.
More to say about mnemonics later, maybe.
Cheers...
