His name is Pierre Garçon, not "Garcon"

by Brad Wells on Oct 9, 2009 1:52 PM EDT in Humor

This is just a helpful tip on how to spell Pierre Garçon's name correctly. In the HTML view, enter &ccedil when you want to create a tilde under the "C."

That, or you can just copy Pierre Garçon and paste it in whenever you want to mention the electric young receiver's name.

Indy Star article on Colts receiver Pierre Garçon

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And I care about this, why?

Dude is good, don’t care about French C’s

by tim55 on Oct 9, 2009 2:35 PM EDT reply actions

Never diss a man’s name who comes out of my MUC. You’ll get hurt.

by SpecialBrownie on Oct 9, 2009 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions

It's not a French C

It’s a Latin ç. And how would you like it if everyone spelt your name wrong?

by eltharion_doa on Oct 9, 2009 2:42 PM EDT reply actions

Ohhhhhhhhhh you can call Ray, or you can call me Jay, but ya doesn't have to call me

Johnson.

by tim55 on Oct 9, 2009 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions

hey elth.....take this, suckah.

First thing, Pierre Garcon had to ask for the cedilla on the name on the back of his jersey. That’s the hook-looking doo-dad at the bottom of the “c” in his name, which, in French, tells the speaker to pronounce the “c” as an “s” and not a “k.”

“They did it, no problem,” Garcon said recently. “It looks pretty natural.”

I beleive it says French up there…..Babooooom….There ain’t no such thing as a “latin C” that I could find.

by tim55 on Oct 9, 2009 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Oui

c’est français.

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by peytonsthebest on Oct 9, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions

pode ser português, também

como: “tradução”

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 9, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Oui et Pierre est français.

Et merci pour la leçon en portugais. Jusqu’ici, nous avons des jeux violents, les dessins animés, de la nourriture de merde et des langues étrangères!

Qui a dit que nous sommes tous pas de culture?

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by peytonsthebest on Oct 9, 2009 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Argh!

I can’t read any of that. How incredibly annoying.

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by Cassieper on Oct 9, 2009 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Mais oui

for a translation… thank you for the lesson in portuguese. Here we have violent games, animated pictures crappy food and strange languages.

And Garcon means ‘boy’ in french…

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by bluegirl on Oct 9, 2009 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks.

What do you mean crappy food, ptb? Chocolate chop ice cream with chocolate syrup on top is anything but crappy.

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by Cassieper on Oct 9, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Since Pierre is a french name, I assume french...

I was just being silly. And the last line: who says we have no culture…

Crappy referring to nutritional value. ;-)

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by peytonsthebest on Oct 9, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions

when i was a bachelor

i had tons of culture. I was never good at following expiration dates on milk.

by SpazMo on Oct 9, 2009 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions

yum...

cultures.

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by peytonsthebest on Oct 9, 2009 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Touche

Eu argumentava que o cê-cedilha pode ser latino porque também aparece em português.

Porém:

Ç, ç (c-cedilla) is a letter of Albanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar, Ligurian, Kurdish (strictly Kurmanji and Zaza dialects). This letter also appears in Portuguese, French, Occitan, Catalan, and Friulian language as a variant of letter "c".

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 9, 2009 7:46 PM EDT up reply actions

voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir

by SpazMo on Oct 9, 2009 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions

no thanks

but I appreciate the offer?

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 9, 2009 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions

i was just giving out the totality of my french knowledge… other than maybe como ca va… :)

by SpazMo on Oct 9, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions

mine is:

“Je nes par pas francais” and “Parlez-vous francais?”

I’m sure the spelling is wrong and I’m missing accents, but you get the point

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 9, 2009 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions

I think you meant

“Je ne parle pas de français”: “I do not speak French.”

“Parlez-vous le français?”: “Do you speak French?”

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by KMR24 on Oct 9, 2009 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions

that's the one

thanks… I was too lazy to do the babelfish thing

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 10, 2009 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions

i believe

you can leave the le off, though, just parlez-vous francais works?

by SpazMo on Oct 10, 2009 12:26 AM EDT up reply actions

err

what i mean is, parlez voud le … is probably technically correct, but if you said that, after you turned your back, the two frenchies would look at each other and go ‘le tour-eest, he he ha ha’?

by SpazMo on Oct 10, 2009 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, you're right

I could’ve left the “le” out of “Parlez-vous français?”

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by KMR24 on Oct 10, 2009 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Visage triste :-(

I missed y’all French convo while I was in French class! Damnez cette leçon sur le pronom relatif!!

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by KMR24 on Oct 9, 2009 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions

I took Latin 3 years in high school.

You’re completely right, Tim. There is no special way to write a c in Latin.

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by Cassieper on Oct 9, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions

You guys are making me feel dumb.

Latin French Portuguese, I can barely speak English correctly.

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by Indy Lori on Oct 9, 2009 7:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Favre

Why do people insist on calling him Farve? It is Favre. Brett even calls himself Farve.(pronounced /ˈfɑrv/) What an idiot! Favre is French.

by Coltsdude1000 on Oct 9, 2009 3:13 PM EDT reply actions

Yep.

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on Oct 9, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions

It ain't my name but it looks like it should be pronounced

Faahhv ray………..

by tim55 on Oct 9, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions

If I remember my french the pronunciation should be “Favreh” and of course, you have that gutteral-i’m-gonna-cough-up-a-loogie thing going on with the “r”.

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by peytonsthebest on Oct 9, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Gawldammit, does this mean I need to launch charmap every time I post about him?

Just remember folks, the keystroke for ç is Alt+0231.

by aldctjoc on Oct 9, 2009 3:19 PM EDT reply actions

... although maybe I'll just start writing "Pierre" instead.

.. and hope that the Colts don’t draft a second “Pierre” to the team. :-/

by aldctjoc on Oct 9, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Just call him the dude with the great straight arm.

by tim55 on Oct 9, 2009 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Just be PC and call him Pç

by SpazMo on Oct 9, 2009 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

oh wait

that makes no sense, bleh. No more afternoon naps for me. =/ Is there a way to put a cedilla on a G?

by SpazMo on Oct 9, 2009 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Really? I mean, really?

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by peytonsurdaddy on Oct 9, 2009 3:46 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah,

there’s absolutely no way I’m going to look up how to type the &ccedil every time I want to spell Pierre’s last name, especially when it comes to open threads.

I don’t count as an official writer, so I think I’m gonna stick with Garcon.

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by Cassieper on Oct 9, 2009 4:48 PM EDT reply actions

See.

I even apparently typed the HTML wrong (though I don’t know what I did wrong). too much headache for what it’s worth.

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by Cassieper on Oct 9, 2009 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions

This is lame

But right after I noticed the “cedilla” as it is called, I googled how to type it and have done so ever since. I refuse to text his last name (just type Pierre G) as I don’t know how to do it in text. Verizon needs to get on that. Like now.

by npb1985 on Oct 9, 2009 5:07 PM EDT reply actions

change your language

you can get the c withe the cedilla if you change your language in your settings. It does actually have a key that you can use on the key board then that will generate the c with the tail on it already. (you see that up here in canada a lot more since french is one of our ‘official’ languages.)

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by bluegirl on Oct 9, 2009 5:48 PM EDT reply actions