Do French Cows Moo?
Do French Cows Moo?
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#1Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 8:26pm
The French believe that their cows "meu."
Do you think location matters, such that cows in Normandy or Quebec would "meu" and cows in Devonshire and Connecticutt "moo?"
Can cows, like Siamese cats, be bred for vocalization? Is it training or technique? A French conspiracy?
Serious discussion only.
#1re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 8:30pmAsk harris, our resident bovine connoisseur.
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SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#2re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 8:31pm
Da*nit SM2- that's what I was going to say. 
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#3re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 8:31pm
This is a matter of global interest.
International communication.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#4re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 8:39pmInternational commooonication
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mamie4 5/14/03
#5re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 8:41pmI forgot about you, Mamie. Didn't you once give us a lesson on cow sex?
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Salve, Salve Regina
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Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#7re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 8:46pmCow dialect is a very serious issue.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
bbabe24
Featured Actor Joined: 7/16/04
#9re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 8:51pm
I don't think that cows are the most intelligent of creatures, so I say that training them to do anything significant would be difficult.
In regard to bovine vocalizations, I think that the country in which the cows reside has nothing to do with the pronunciation of their "moos". However, it has been proven that many mammals, such as whales and cats, have a series of distict vocalizations which serve as communication signals among their species. Although we cannot make similar correlations about cow "moos" without further study, we can nevertheless predict that cows also possess their own cow "language" in some form or another.
Now, all this being said, please moo with me. Thank you.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#10re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 8:58pm
You and wickedwitchofthechest, whom I greatly miss, seem like-minded, bbabe24.
I would do as you ask, but I can't make up my mind whether a "moo" or a "meu" is most appropriate.
It is not fear that holds me back, as your signature warns against. Merely momentary indecision pending further devoted evaluation of the issue.
bbabe24
Featured Actor Joined: 7/16/04
#11re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 9:05pm
nomdeplume, take your time. No need to rush into a hasty decision which you may later regret.
That being said, I suggest that you express your "moo" in any which way you feel most comfortable. You have that right. This is America, after all. The first amendment dictates it.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#12re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 9:09pm
I take my cows very seriously.
I do believe they have a way of communicating with each other - but whether a French cow can communicate with a Jersey (if you'll excuse the bovine pun) is unknown. I have seen a cow call out a 'moo' from one side of a field and be answered by her calf on the other side. Whether this is actual speaking or just the calf recognizing it's mother's 'voice' is something only they (the cows) could tell you.
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mamie4 5/14/03
#13re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 9:40pmWell... roosters in english say cock-a-doodle-doo and in spanish they say ki-kiri-ki.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#14re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 9:43pmI thought it was kiri-kiri-kiri?
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#15re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 9:47pmI find this to be a very mooving experience. Unfortunately, since some people are really milking this, it has become udderly ridiculous
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#16re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 10:13pm
Well said, Mr Roxy.
bbabe24 has me pondering whether the first Amendment should apply as well to cows.
They are from nature, but are they a natural person?
to meu or to moo--
what's one to do?
#17re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/18/06 at 11:53pmnom- PM me pronto!
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
#18re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 12:14am
I was just reading the thread about good/bad stagedoor experiences and there was a comment about how apparently Frenchie Davis goes to the gym. So when I read the title of this thread, I thought it said, "Does Frenchie moo?" and I thought "this is sooooo wrong... but in the best possible way."
#19re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:07am
UND, if you are a German Kuh..........you say....
"Vee haf vays uf making you Moo!"
#20re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:37amhe he i love this thread
Unknown User
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#21re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 11:01am
"to meu or to moo--
what's one to do?"
Well I suppose that highly depends on what country you are currently in.
#22re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 11:48am....some varm, milk, perhaps?
#23re: Do French Cows Moo?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 11:59amoveltine?????????/
nomdeplume
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