For all the bad rep French gets about not pronouncing letters in words, at least this the t in tsunami is clearly pronounced. As is the p in psychologie, pseudo and pneumonie.

I was curious about who that cartouche is talking about, and it might be Cleopatra VII (or 𓈎𓃭𓇋𓍯𓊪𓄿𓂧𓂋𓏏𓄿𓆇), but I’m not sure.

Sadly my knowledge of Egyptian is limited to spotting proper names.

It’s missing an expressway and a giant parking lot. And we need cheaper gas for our cars. There’s no other solution for this one, just cheaper gas for everyone!

There’s a traditionalist/conservative band in Québec that made a very popular song about this about 20 years ago called “Dégénération”. The song is pretty good but I always hated it because at some point they whine about some young woman that’s always with a different partner and “saves herself” with abortions, saying she secretly dreams of having 14 kids, like her great grandmother. The rest of the lyrics are pretty bang on, but they’re really insisting on the traditionalist aspects and it sours the song for me.

But essentially, the first bits are going like this:

Your great-great-grandfather, he cleared the land

Your great-grandfather, he worked the land

And then your grandfather made the land profitable

Then your father, he sold it to become a civil servant