Duolingo cracks me up

[fuzzyred]

"Oh non, les escargots ont mangé les laitues."

This was a sentence in the lesson about food. It translates to "Oh no, the snails ate the lettuce." XD There were also two other sentences about snails! XD XD All after this one, and all of them were towards the end of the lesson.

"Léo est un escargot, il ne mange que de la laitue."
"Leo is a snail, he only eats lettuce."

"Tu n'as trouvé que des escargots pour le dîner?"
"You only found snails for diner?"

There was also a sentence about babies:

"Le bébé a peint le mur de la cuisine avec sa purée."
"The baby painted the kitchen wall with her mashed potatoes."

And a low key insult from Duo that made be laugh:

"Je pense que personne ne goûtera ce gâteau moche."
"I think no one will taste this ugly cake."

Duolingo was very amusing today XD And and and! I only have 24 more skills before I get my golden owl in French.

Comments

[technoshaman]

If the cake is ugly, it's not so bad if you cut it to bits and nom it than if it's a serious piece of artwork too... :)

That kid is a budding Renoir... :) I love the assumption that "purée" est pommes de terre if otherwise unspecified...

[fuzzyred]

Very true. People don't feel as bad cutting up an ugly cake. As long as it tastes good, that's all that matters.

XD That made me laugh too, though "mashed potatoes" was my first thought.

[ex_flameandsong751]

Eh, a cake doesn't have to be pretty, just tasty XD

Re: 24 more skills to go... you can do it! *waves pompoms*

[fuzzyred]

XD I agree. Though some people can make phenomenal looking cakes.

Thanks! I have made some progress so far today, and might get more if I'm lucky. I did also bring a few more skills above level 1, so there is that too. I'm very glad I've been able to test out of all the French skills so far. It would have taken sooooooooooooooooo much longer if I had to do them the regular way.

[warriorsavant]

Golden Owl? Sounds like Duolingo has been influenced by Hogwarts.

[fuzzyred]

Yes, the reward for completing a skill tree, I believe. It does sound vaguely Hogwarts-y :D

[lithophiles]

Have you ever seen the blog Only Useful Phrases? Some of these seem like they would be ideal material for submitting...

[fuzzyred]

I had not seen this. Thank you for sharing it, I got some good laughs. :D