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Originally posted by Yves SAVARIAUD:
"wetting my pants" we say "j'en pisse dans ma culotte".
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Mais oui
I had forgotten about culottes
to see some rude pictures do a google image search for that word
http://images.google.com/images?q=cu...=Search+Images
Most of which are briefer than the garments I usually associate with that word
and as an example see this one being held up by Monsewer Blair in this photograph on a french web site of all places
I thought they would be shortened verions of good old English "trousers" a word which after 5 years still gives my American wife the giggles (over here everything a man dons up to his belt are known as pants with no differentition for the underwear variety which I still find confusing.
John Fowles
"See an image from the past Of an old schooner flyin' down a sky that's overcast"
(can anyone guess at the inspiration for that snippet from the great lyrics from "Restless"??)
[ January 03, 2006, 19:50: Message edited by: johnfowles ]