Talk:couple-close

Hello, in french

A Citroën « 2CV » (2-horse-power car) still standing-up straight in its boots. We used to call it « la deuche » , or more affectionately « ma deudeuche ».

as we often see such couple-closes in the streets, we use to call them casually : « double chevrons » .

Our good old car brand Citroën, which displays it on its radiator grilles since 1919, is nicknamed (in the newspapers or on the radio broadcasts) : « la marque au double chevron » (« the brand with the 2 chevrons ») .

Since so many of us have owned a « 2CV » little minimalist nimble Citroën car at least once, a couple-close is for most french people (at least for those beetwen 50 & 90 years old) a madeleine since it irresistibly evokes to us dear remembrances  : our used first car, juvenile far away pennyless travels, "mains dans le cambouis" (« hands in cart-grease » D.I.Y. maintenance), sun & wind in your hair when the tarpaulin roof was off...and also indeed close coupling (the seats were rubber-bands cushioned but the front seats could not be tilted back - and the iron bar in the full middle of the back seat was really intrusive)...

BTW, in my Webster's dico. p. 552 : a « couple-close » is described as « In heraldry : a cotise paralleling a chevron »... T.y.Arapaima 10:19, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Are you sure this is in French? Mglovesfun (talk) 10:25, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Pray, what am I sure it is in french ? Arapaima 14:41, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

How come you always write 'hello in french'^[sic] as the edit summary, then talk in English? Mglovesfun (talk) 14:46, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

May I answer on your DP ? T.y.Arapaima 07:15, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Wow, seems a "petit malin" is bogging your DP, hope you'll be able to read me though. T.y. Arapaima 07:23, 13 May 2010 (UTC)