Menage A Trois

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Hi everyone,

I present here my apologies. In trying to correct the expression "Menage Et Tois", I added that you should learn to write french... I sadly forgot to put the ;) that was obvious to me. Of all the people reading this newsgroup, a great man, accused me of being a Linguistic Nazi and enjoined me to leave you all alone. He also asked that I learn humility. I answer to his demand on my knees.

I'm really sorry if someone was offended by my post. Merci a Vincent Paquin, un quebecois pure laine, stresse pour les questions linguistiques.

Philippe Mathieu Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

PS. Don't you find it curious that the only reply I got was from a french speaking person?

PPS. Sorry for all the mistakes in this post.

In article [email] (Philippe Mathieu) writes:

he reads french; maybe he doesn't speak it. ha, ha.
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Menage in menage a trois means "mix". Menager is the verb "to mix".

Spent a year in france and never heard this expression used like americans use it, but since it's a little risque, it may be used in France. Who knows.

Menage a trois is a "mix of three" literally.

Nope, you're thinking of Melanger.

OK, I spent 8 years studying french, 4 of them with a native speaker from the south of France. According to her the french do have the expression 'menage a trois', but it doesn't mean the same as the english version.

She explained it to be a married couple, with one partner having a 'lover' that the other partner knows about and consents to.

'Menager' is a verb meaning 'to keep house' or 'to make a household (home)'. So 'manage a trois' means literally 'to make a household of three'.

just my 'deux centimes'

amethyst

Assuming this isn't a joke, which I suspect it is, I'll provide the answer.

me nage a trois \-a -'trwa \ [F, lit., household for three] :an arrangement in which three persons (as a married pair and the lover of one of the pair) share sexual relations esp. while living together

This comes from 2 french canadians who read Seinfeld:
One guy simply said it meant "Threesome."
The other guy said it meant three people living together, as in an
apartment, but lately has come to mean not JUST living together...
like those people would be doing "OTHER" things too.
So there ya go ... now ya know.  :)
	Kerry Jane
	[email]

In article , [email] says:

Anyone heard of the french verb menager ? I think I remember hearing it meant to eat !

Jason

In article , [email] (Jason Chaney) wrote:

hahaha !! (sorry) "menage a trois" means : three peoples living together and so three people sharing ...hem. many other things together.

Jason Chaney ([email]) a ecrit:

:-)))))))))))))

sorry for laughting like that but the thread on menage a trois is a bit funny. In fact, to eat is manger and not menager. menager (quelqu'un) exist but has nothing to see with food. this has a different meaning with 'faire menage a [trois]' too.

'menage' is used in many phrases like :
entrer en menage (get married ?)
faire menage a [trois] or more than three :) ; i let you the pleasure of
			giving it the right meaning (most of the posts are
			close to the right answer)
faire le menage (really different from faire menage a) ("to clean a house")
menager quelqu'un ("avoid hurting (morally) someone")
etc (etc ? :)

well, i hope this help.

In [email] (Jason Chaney) writes:

[email] says:

You're thinking of manger. Close.

I looked it up in "le Robert & Collins Senior" french/english english french dictionary.

The entry for "menage a trois" (french) says "menage a trois" (english).

It is the same in the english part! The definition equals the word.

No kidding!

"Harrap's" doesn't mention the phrase.

In Le Robert "Dictionnaire Quebecois d'aujourd'hui", "se mettre en menage" means to live together, to marry. "Menage a trois" does not exist in Quebecois.

Hmmmm.

"Webster's" (bless its heart) says: French literal - household for three. An arrangement in which three persons (as a married pair and the lover of one of the pair) share sexual relations esp. while living together.

And nobody mentions eating.

Yvonne <up far too late with far too many dictionaries>