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⌈ Secret Post #2465 ⌋

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Doonesbury, O Human Star]

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[Two of a Kind]

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[Cleopatra/Elizabeth Taylor]

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[The Final Descent by Rick Yancey]

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[Attack on Titan]

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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[Whitechapel]

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[Outlast]

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Why is it "voulez-vous coucher avez moi?" that's caught on? Wouldn't one use "tu" most of the time?

For starters it should be "avec", but maybe that was just a typo. Anyway, I think this came from some popular songs? It's not something you'd normally say, which is probably where the answer lies -- it's the kind of thing you'd say to a stranger; someone you wouldn't be familiar enough with to call "tu".

Yes, it's definitely something directed to a stranger, and to my knowledge it's not something people actually say.

Obviously.

"Veux tu coucher avec moi?" doesn't have the same number of syllables.

It also doesn't have the alliteration of "voulez-vous."

Because Patty LaBelle or whoever wrote that song for her in the 70's either didn't know/care about proper grammar, didn't think it necessary for a song about a Cajun prostitute, OR they just wanted something with enough syllables to fit the measure. *shrug*

Because this?

fft, forgot it won't link...

http://youtu.be/t4LWIP7SAjY

Nope. "Tu" is informal, so you'd only use it when speaking to friends/family, people you were already on close terms with. Anyone outside that group gets "vous", the formal, and that seems to match the tone of the song, i.e. the singer isn't speaking to someone they're already pals with.

If I had to guess (which I do, because I don't speak French) I'd say it's down to the context. Based on my interpretation of the song (the more recent version of the song is the only one I can really talk about) it's about a whore. The relationship between whore and john is not what I would call a close, intimate, and friendly relationship. It can be, of course, but it is fundamentally a professional relationship. Hence the use of Vous over Tu, to underline this.

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Cause it was in a song

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