I don't speak French very well; often I have to turn to Boyfriend for clarification on denotation, connotation and grammatical usage, which means I end up asking Boyfriend a lot of stupid questions.*
So when we drove by a daycare centre called "Bimbo Garderie" I had to turn to him and ask, Do they really have the word "bimbo" in French, and does it mean something different than it does in English? Do you think it could be a case of cultural misappropriation, and that they didn't quite grasp the entire meaning of the word? Or, god forbid, do you think there's some poor soul out there from another country who opened up a daycare, and who just happened to be named "Bimbo"?
Boyfriend said, perhaps it's supposed to be the name of a clown.
* There was {and will continue to be?} a francophone progamme called Le Plateau ~~ it seemed immensely funny. So in order to improve my French, I used to force Boyfriend to tape it and translate it for me scene~by~scene, which involved a lot of rewinding & replaying, and asking a lot of questions... the kind of thing that drives a poor dear Boyfriend crazy...
Posted by edgar at October 20, 2003 03:33 PM