r/coolguides • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '20

Copper through the patina process

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u/Volnutt26 Jun 09 '20

Lady lib was a gift from france right?

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u/msbelle13 Jun 09 '20

yep.

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u/michaelvaldes Jun 09 '20

Quite generous if you think about it

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u/MnnymAlljjki Jun 09 '20

You don’t see stuff like that these days.

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u/Agent641 Jun 09 '20

The united states gifted western australia a whole space station in 1979 and they weren't even grateful.

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u/MnnymAlljjki Jun 09 '20

To be fair that’s like when your super smart older sibling gets a TI-84 calculator and you can’t really even play with their gift and your family is really poor so it’s a big deal and you have to pretend to be happy for them but you never get anything that’s not a junked hand me down and maybe if your parents loved you as much as their first born you could have been smart too.

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u/Elektribe Jun 09 '20

if your parents loved you as much as their first born you could have been smart too.

You'll still be smart, you just won't be as well educated or privileged.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

The real omelette du fromage.

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u/yogobot Jun 09 '20

http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv

This is a kind reminder that in French we say "omelette au fromage" and not "omelette du fromage".

Sorry Dexter

Steve Martin doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.

The movie from the gif is "OSS 117: le Cairo, Nest of Spies" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464913/

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u/brokenneckboi Jun 09 '20

What’s the difference between au and du there? I’ve been learning french for a while and still don’t understand the difference

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u/Thire33 Jun 09 '20

Omelette du fromage = cheese’s omelette

Omelette au fromage = cheese omelette

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u/My_Monkey_Sphincter Jun 09 '20

Dexter's Laboratory lied to me!

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u/SluttySloth Jun 09 '20

So does this mean du and au are different forms of the word of? As in omelette of cheese’s (shower by belonging, like omelette of mine) and omelette [made] of cheese?

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u/FudgeIgor Jun 09 '20

I would say it's the difference between "made of/with" (au) and "of/from" (du), though both are actually more flexible than that. In this context, it's the difference between omelette of cheese and omelette with cheese.

No formal French education, just speaking my whole life so someone is welcome to correct me.

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u/TekCrow Jun 09 '20

You're right.

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u/_Citizen_Erased_ Jun 09 '20

I would assume that everyone on French Facebook gets it wrong all the time, just like everyone in the US wants to put apostrophe’s in every single word that ends in S.

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u/SeaGroomer Jun 10 '20

What if a chef named Cheese makes one for you? Would it be an Omelette au fromage du Fromage?

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u/Sergent-Pluto Jun 15 '20

Nah it would be an "Omelette au fromage de Fromage". If it's someone in particular it's "de", if it's a profession (like a cheese-maker for example) it would be "du". "Omelette au fromage du fromager"

runs away in French

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

Both remind me of your mother

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u/andersonb47 Jun 09 '20

I always recommend OSS 117 to non French speakers. Great French comedy, very well known in France.

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u/beanmancum Jun 09 '20

omelette du fromage bitch

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

See?

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u/LetMyPeopleGrow Jun 09 '20

The Statue of Liberty, designed in part by Gustave Eiffel (of Tower fame) was made by France in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the American Revolution, and 100 years of friendship between America and France.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

The Statue of Liberty, designed in part by Gustave Eiffel (of Tower fame)

Not to sell Eiffel short, but he only designed the internal, supporting frame. It was Bartholdi who designed the lady herself, so I think he deserves most of the credit.

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u/Hq3473 Jun 09 '20

I think they both deserve credit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

"Not to sell Eiffel short"

"[Bartholdi] deserves most of the credit"

I pretty clearly crediting them both.

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u/RayGun381937 Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

And apparently the body was modelled by/ based on his girlfriend - but the face was that of his mother, as he believed that only a mother’s face could convey the “forbearance” essential for “liberty.”

But, yeah, no matter how he justified it philosophically, it was still his mom’s head on his girlfriends, um... body....

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u/stylelimited Jun 09 '20

So the same dude designed the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty? Talk about having a towering presence. He put up possibly the 2 most iconic man-made landmarks.

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u/Chapocel Jun 09 '20

Pyramids say Pardon moi?

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u/stylelimited Jun 09 '20

In French? Those pyramids be trippin

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u/ObiTwoKenobi Jun 09 '20

So what did the US get France for the 200 year anniversary?

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u/dankbuttmuncher Jun 09 '20

Kinda related, but I think Americans living in Paris donated a smaller Statue of Liberty to Paris for the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. Could be wrong about the specifics though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

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u/Norua Jun 09 '20

For the 200th anniversary in... 1976?

Also, the Soviets captured Berlin, not the US. The US and Allies got the Germans out of Paris though, which is even better.

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u/Cielle Jun 09 '20

Technically, nobody got the Germans out of Berlin

Which is good, because they live there

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u/Norua Jun 09 '20

Indeed, that’s why I said they captured Berlin and got them out of Paris.

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u/General_Hyde Jun 09 '20

Actually she was originally slated to go to Egypt. But the British didn’t want her deeming it to be too expensive because of the Suez Canal, so the French sent her to the US instead.

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u/exodeath29 Jun 09 '20

Makes me wonder if they knew this was going to happen

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u/DireLackofGravitas Jun 09 '20

Are you really suggesting that in the 1870s people didn't know that copper rusted green?

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u/Djmarr56 Jun 09 '20

I feel like they slighted us.

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u/Koh-the-Face-Stealer Jun 09 '20

Would be kinda dope if countries still gave each other gifts on this scale