In article ux.net>,
starwars > wrote:

> >> Hmm...this may not be so easy, but i shall do my best to
> >> decoupage my
> >> converstaion with it every now and then. It will add a
> >> certain, keskoosay*, *decoupage* to my speech, I think,
> >> je ne ce quas?*
> >
> >I love to hear people say "it has a certain je ne se pa"
> >(forgive spelling). Once I asked a waiter, while looking
> >at the chalkboard, what the "soup du jour" was. He said,
> >"Umm, today's soup du jour of the day, is tomato." He now
> >works for the Department of Redundancy Department.
>
> "It has a certain ... je ne sais quoi." translates as "It
> has a certain ... I do not know what." It can have a couple
> of meanings. In English, "It has a certain quality but I
> don't know how to describe it." Or, because it is frequently
> spoken by the French character in plays or movies, it
> occasionally means, "It has a certain quality ... but I don't
> know how to say it in English." USUALLY, it means the former,
> something indescribable. There's no redundancy.

My apologies to you.

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