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September Bonus Comic- Francetionable Francetent

🕑 Added 2017-09-29 18:06:25 +0000 UTC

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Well not required everywhere and every year, but a popular one anyway. And it's fun because it's definitely a book Doralsace-Loraine would love as it's dark and realistic.

Maurice Kessler

Required reading in high school French class.

Trigon Manthree

Looks like L'Etranger by Camus.

Sean Fhearsalach

What's the book Doralsace is reading? I can't make out the title.

Extra funny because like... don't they use ML in Italy? Sigh, starbucks. Sigh

"Doralsace-lorraine" is officially my favorite name in the history of names. Love the reference <3

@Brad Knowles: Francelore uses the following sentence: ‘Je comprends pas les Américains’ where the negative mark ‘ne’ is omitted (the ‘pas’ is still there) which makes it more colloquial. ‘Je sais pas’ -> ‘Dunno’

Jumpy James Johnson Junior

*ahem* from caffeineinformer: In the purest sense, espresso coffee is made from 7 grams of finely ground coffee extracted to 1.5 fluid ounces (44 ml) over about 25 seconds. Values ranged from 58 mg up to 185 mg for a double shot. 77mg caffeine per 1.5 fl. oz shot By my maths, that's 1540 mg caffeine in 20 shots or 1026.667 mg in a 20 fl oz cup. According to caymanchem.com: Caffeine - Toxicity Data: Oral LDLO (woman): 400 mg/kg; Oral TDLO (child): 140 mg/kg; Oral TDLO (man): 51 mg/kg ... and it needs a "Harmful if swallowed" warning label on it. I work that out at the 1540 mg "20 shots" cup being around TDlo for a 30.2kg man. Considering that guy's probably over twice that, he'd get away with it ... unless he needed to sleep or something in the next 24 hours. Actually, wait ... Back to caffeineinformer: In humans, the half-life for caffeine is anywhere from 4 to 6 hours on average, which explains why the average energy drink or coffee's effect lasts about 4 to 6 hours. If we call it 5 hours, after 5 hours he'd be down to having had 10 shots, after 10 hours he'd be down to having had five shots, after 15 hours he'd be down to having 2.5 shots, after 20 hours he'd be down to having had 1.25 shots and could possibly get to sleep and after 25 hours he'd be down to 0.625 shots and out like a light.

Jumpy James Johnson Junior

Et moi, je voudrais vuer plus de cette belle Hann-alors-bien.

Jumpy James Johnson Junior

"Ne" gets dropped a lot because the "pas" / "jamais" / "aucun" (or whatever that word is) gets the point across anyway. In effect, proper grammar is "I don't understand not Americans" or "I don't have no tomatoes" and they just say "I understand not Americans" or "I have no tomatoes" because it's easier.

Emma Humphries

I love this style, it reminds me of John Alison (and that's a wonderful thing!)

Airyu

J'ai besoin de PLUS de Dora périssienne, s'il te plaaaaaaaaaaaaît~

Mari San

The bonus comic is a great idea to start exploring new styles! I think it looks great!

André alias DD

Merci, je suis amoureux de Francelore et Doralsace-Lorraine ! (Thanks, I'm in love with Francelore and Doralsace-Lorraine !)

Minzoku Bokumetsu

Not remotely a French speaker, but 100% "proper" grammar is super unnatural in spoken dialogue in ALL languages

Lucas Bonnet

Native chiming in, this kind of "ne" is mostly optional when spoken

Buck Caldwell

Not native, but in some situations when speaking in first person the "ne" is not necessary.

LazyLich

I remember just enough of my high school French to just barely figure out the joke without reading the translation. :D

Brad Knowles

Hmm. I lived in Belgium for almost eight years, and I never really properly learned French myself -- my French is about as good as the guy with the baseball cap. But I would have thought "I do not understand Americans" would more properly translate into something like "Je ne comprends pas les Américains." This uses the "Je ne X pas" pattern for "I do not X". Can we get a native French writer to chime in?

Freya Thurell

so funny

Joshua Brumley

Does clear up something that's minorly irritated me about Starbucks; what the heck a Venti size is. It's a 20oz cup.

Well done, Jeph. I laughed my ass off.

Andrew

And here you thought you'd never use anything you learned at school in real life :)

Andrew

A large coffee containing 20 double shots... yes that might literally be a Café de la Mort!

Travis Wedding

This art/shading style. I don't know how I feel about it.

Andrew

Oui? Yes! Yes!

BobC

C'est fou! Bon chance avec demi-litre-meseure.

Scott Kenney

My jaw muscles ache from grinning

Mark P.

Hey, 10 years of school french finally paid off! I could read that without the translation!

Absolument brillant!

Joshua Lewis

Je l'aime :p

Todd Whitesel

I lurve beatnik Dora, she needs a pretentious beret tho

I never expected to see a pun about my home region in QC ^^

Wayne Rossi

Je voudrais plus de la francophonie, s'il te plait.

Willinwoods

Oh, reminds me: I was embarassingly old when I finally found out to the meaning of 'Idéfix'...

Celine Chamberlin

Francelore is my new favorite thing.

Matthew Harris

I don't know that Doralsace-Lorraine seems quite German enough to be named after Alsace-Lorraine ("you got your Germany in my France, you got your France in my Germany")

In the words of Asterix, "BOF! Ils sont fous, ces Americains!"

Rachel

Ceci ç'est le meilleur. (Hopefully my dimly remembered French is, if not right, at least understandable.)

nowshowjj

Knowing Spanish got me through most of this. I was happy to see my rough translation was correct in the English translating. I love it! I hope we see more alternate universe stuff in the future. Thanks!