Liaisons heureuses: Interview with Tatty Macleod
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- On the occasion of Alumni Day, organised by Campus France UK, we met with comedian Tatty Macleod and asked her a few questions on the Entente Cordiale and the Franco-British relationship.
This interview is part of the Liaisons heureuses series celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale. 
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She’s great
I love Tatty. She's like a window into being French.
She's not just a window, She's the whole house!
Oh là là! C'est trop cool!
My best friend from University and I, we are still very close, used to jump between Swiss German, German, English, French and Italian. It was a lot of fun and for any situation we could just use the word or the term from the language that was best fitting. We would then also play with synonyms and homonyms across languages In other words, if one word in language A is pronounced the same way as a word with a completely different meaning in language B, we would substitute the word from B in language A, creating a language that nobody else could understand. You really had to be somewhat fluent in all the languages and very much on your toes constantly for it to work. It’s a lot of fun. It also works well with Japanese and Italian because both are very vowel oriented and Japanese has a ton of homonyms. Soto in Japanese means outside and sotto in Italian means underneath. This opens a Pandora’s box of fun to be had while annoying other people who get confused and cannot follow. Baka means stupid in Japanese and enough in Amharic. That question is enough! You got it? We were total brats.
I classify as non-lingual. I speak French, German and English equally bad.
Concorde. I know it came to a bad end but it was an amazing Anglo French achievement that hasn’t been bettered.
Absolutely. Tragic end through no fault of Concorde. A thousand years ago I lived in Clapham and each late afternoon I’d dash outside to see it pass over. Never tired of it. It truly was extraordinarily stunning.
That came to my mind, too.
Slimani is a very good choice !
The French figure I would like to be: Michel de Montaigne.
Weren't they both Irish? Never mind, I agree you can't beat Irish Littérature
I don't think there's a French figure I'd liked to have been.
On the British side, two favorite writers are playwrights, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, but while I am a vegetarian, don't smoke, or drink alcohol, coffee or tea like the former, some of his views, least of which admiration of Stalin and other unsavory things, are total turn offs. And staying a virgin until 29? No thanks!
And Oscar Wilde, while delightfully clever and devilishly insightful about the human psyche and Victorian era mores, was gay. No thanks!
So maybe, simply, Sean Connery, bc I stayed at his house in Marbella as a teen, and swam in his pool and admired his confidence. For a while, I modeled my confidence after his - couldn't back it up, but it fooled more than a few.