People are the same everywhere--or just-about-nearly-almost. When French boys and girls pluck daisy petals their chant is not, "He loves me, he loves me not," but rather "Il m'aime un peu, beaucoup, passionément, à la folie, pas du tout..." (He loves me a little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at all.)
Vocabulary
une marguerite: a daisy
effleurer: to delicately brush or touch
effleurer la marguerite: to play "he loves me, he loves me not"
©2012 P.B. Lecron
What a very nicely displayed, informative website! Ou, quelle belle website! I will start to use it to help me learn French. I just started with the 'effleurer la marquerite' description, which has helped me to understand what Mireille Belleau is saying in Episode 31 of 'French In Action'. Thanks for sharing.
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