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• Jack western Massachusetts✭✭✭✭

  March 2009 Posts: 1,752

  Hey Mike,
  
  Try these...
  
  best,
  Jack.

  
• marciero Southern MaineNew

  March 2009 Posts: 120

  Thanks Jack.
• Joli Gadjo Cardiff, UK✭✭✭✭ Derecho, Bumgarner - VSOP, AJL

  March 2009 Posts: 542

  btw, does anyone knows whether or not the exact title of the song is Swing Gitan or Swing Gitane ?
  Paul Vidal has played La Gitane and Django Gitan Swing, those are different songs but always spelled the same way.... the correct spelling for Swing Gitan(e) doesn't seem consistent.

  - JG
• François RAVEZ FranceProdigy

  March 2009 Posts: 294

  Hi,
  
  The correct spelling is Swing Gitan (gipsy swing) and la Gitane (the gipsy [woman]). In french the adjective changes slightly to match the subject (male, female, singular or plural).
  In french anything is either male or female : for instance a banana is female (une banane) and an apricot is male (un abricot).
  So a gipsy banana will be une banane gitane and a gipsy apricot will be un abricot gitan. That is why you find sometimes gitan and sometimes gitane.
  Now in english when you say "the gipsy" you don't know if you are talking of a man or of a woman. In french you say le gitan for a man and la gitane for a woman.
  While we are on the grammatical subject, here are two frequent mispellings to avoid : you must write
  Fleur de lavande (and not lavende like in lavender)
  Douce ambiance (and not ambience)
  
  Best
  
  François RAVEZ
• Jack western Massachusetts✭✭✭✭

  March 2009 Posts: 1,752

  François RAVEZ wrote:

  ...for instance a banana is female (une banane) and an apricot is male (un abricot).

  
  Call me sexist, but I can't help but think this should be the other way around.
• François RAVEZ FranceProdigy

  March 2009 Posts: 294

  OK Jack,
  
  I should have said a cucumber [male] (un concombre) and a peach [female] (une pêche).
  
  But I don't want to turn your life into a cartoon by Robert Crumb, where you see a fruit salad like an orgy.
  
  Best
  
  François
• Joli Gadjo Cardiff, UK✭✭✭✭ Derecho, Bumgarner - VSOP, AJL

  March 2009 Posts: 542

  Glad we have a few Francophones on the forum who know all that stuff.
  Thanks Francois !

  - JG
• djangology Portland, OregonModerator

  March 2009 Posts: 1,018

  The correct spelling is Swing Gitan (gipsy swing) and la Gitane (the gipsy [woman]).

  
  just kidding around, but i like to play for the woman and so I say "Swing Gitane" ... is that incorrect?
• François RAVEZ FranceProdigy

  March 2009 Posts: 294

  In this case "Gitane Swing" would be more appropriate.
  
  Best
  
  François RAVEZ