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Eglise de

Posted on 2016, March 312018, November 15
french church incorrect spelling chinese

For Spring Break I, along with my husband and daughter, spent two weeks with my sister in Ottawa. She took us on a mini road trip to Montreal, Quebec where I hadn’t been inundated with French since maybe 15 years ago. My rusty high school French came back and I must have seen “Chine” somewhere and thought, “Golly, that seems awfully close to ‘chien’ (which means ‘dog’)”. I googled it to be sure and sure enough, it was just as I suspected.

I was really worried though that the masculine/feminine thing would bar me from drawing up the cartoon. I agonized over this and asked various French expert friends and relatives of mine. I wasn’t sure if it was grammatically correct to say “de” or if I had to use the proper prepositions “de la” or “du” since it is la Chine and le chien. Those darn particles were sure to ruin me.

Anyway, I cleared it with the French teacher at the school I teach at and boy was I relieved! I had been thinking about the cartoon a LOT. You sort of become a bit nutty when one punchline keeps punching your thoughts 24/7.

Also, I wanted to experiment with different styles of cartoons. The New Yorker has very tame looking black and white cartoons so I wanted to try something of that vein. Boy, was it fun! It’s so much easier not drawing it in colour and it adds a classic look to the comic which enhances the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you. I guess I don’t always have to. I am, after all, a math-teaching cartoonist. Go figure.

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1 thought on “Eglise de”

  1. Jacquie Stoutenburg Avon says:
    2016, March 31 at 10:26 pm

    i’d go to the eglise du chat 🙂

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