Fic help?

[trinityofone]

My Kink & Cliché fic is due, um, today, and my Google-fu is failing me. Can anyone help me with a couple pieces of information?

1. I need a toast in French. Basically, some sort of raise your glass, for luck, or even "God help us all"-type thing (that last might actually be the best). My own French is pathetic and awful.

2. I need the names of a couple of literary/academic journals. The only one I can think of is Partisan Review, but I need at least two--one kind of pretentious and stuffy, the other a bit better. The slightly less stodgy one would have to have been willing to publish an article about War and Peace.

If anyone can help me with these things, I would appreciate it greatly. Thanks!

Comments

[laetitia-g.livejournal.com]

In France, we often use "A notre santé" when toasting. It's quite the equivalent of the Cheers or Kampaï moments we see in movies and it's kind of neutral.

When we involve God in the toasting, that means the situation is kind of dire (we hope somebody exterior is gonna give us a hand prompto!). So, you will find 'Que Dieu nous protège'/May god protect us or even better, 'Que Dieu nous vienne en aide'/May God help/save us all. French speakers all around the world would use such sentences (French Canadians as well as French from France if you are wondering).

In other situations (like, 80% of them) we love to use [in France] "Tchin Tchin" just before clinging our glasses while looking in the eyes of the other toasters (otherwise, it means we despite them). Tchin tchin sounds silly but it always bring a smile to the toaters' faces and really, that's the point of a happy toasting right?


Okay, tchin tchin then! :))

[skandrae.livejournal.com]

My friends and I here in Japan say "Chin chin" rather than Kampai. It always brings a smile to our faces, but that's probably because chin is slang for penis, and we're infantile like that ^_^

[laetitia-g.livejournal.com]

NO WAY!!! 0_0
You mean that every French person is a secret sex pervert even when toasting a child birth, a wedding, a successful exam, a nice spring night?!?
EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC??
Whaou!

[skandrae.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid so. Shocking, isn't it?

[darcydodo]

Yes, well, monanotlisa told me interesting things about "mushi mushi" when it caused an entire German theatre audience to burst out laughing. :)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this, by the way. I totally used "Que Dieu nous vienne en aide." Because a new semester is totally dire. *g*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Wow, I used the word "totally" a lot in that last comment. I am just so Californian today, omg!