Showing posts with label avant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label avant. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

La femme boit avant le cheval

pour la femme, pour le cheval // for the woman, for the horse
This time, an illustration for another delightfully silly (and horsey) phrase from Duolingo : "La femme boit avant le cheval" - "The woman drinks before the horse".

I don't know who is thinking up these phrases, but I suspect they occasionally get bored and introduce something nonsensical just to amuse themselves. 

Kind of reminds me of an old student joke : "А электрод я взял деревянный, потому что этот диплом все равно никто читать не будет." - "I used a wooden electrode since no-one gonna read this thesis anyway". I don't know how international it is, maybe it is a part of the students' lore everywhere.