# French? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 19, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680 "2000-09-19T03:09:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680/21 "2000-09-20T14:45:29Z")
Just got a reply from Cirque du Soleil: the language is purely invented. Mystery solved. ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680/22 "2000-09-20T16:49:59Z")
I’m not doubting you, omni-not, but could you forward that info or give us a cite/site? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680/23 "2000-09-20T16:57:24Z")
OK. Everybody who just participated in this thread should go read Poe’s **Murders in the Rue Morgue** again. ---
**Author:** ![jamesglewisf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a5b964/32.png) [@jamesglewisf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jamesglewisf)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680/24 "2000-09-20T17:21:00Z")
Speaking of not really being French. Did you know that the Song of Solomon has a french kiss that outdated France by about 1700 years? ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680/25 "2000-09-20T17:34:05Z")
Well, all I can do is reproduce, verbatim, the reply that “Mulumba” (from the PR Department(?)) at Cirque du Soleil sent me: > [@](#): > > Nostalgie est du langage inventé!!! You could always go to their Web site, but I doubt you will find the answer there. [http://cirquedusoleil.com](http://cirquedusoleil.com) ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680/26 "2000-09-20T17:34:21Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by ishmintingas \* > \*\* . . . > In 1979, David Bowie also cribbed from Hugo Ball when he appeared on Saturday Night Live: He stood rigid while two assistants gripped his arms and carried him forward to the front of the stage, then when he was done singing they carried him back again._\* Wow, that was one of the first things I ever saw on _SNL_, when it first aired; I would have been nearly ten years old at the time. Nobody else I know had ever seen it, so I thought maybe I imagined it! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680/27 "2000-09-20T20:55:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > OK. Everybody who just participated in this thread should go read Poe’s **Murders in the Rue Morgue** again. tomndebb, you seem to forget that the _Cirque du Soleil_ does not have animal acts. ---
**Author:** ![Yeah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/dbc845/32.png) [@Yeah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeah)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680/28 "2000-09-21T01:03:21Z")
I can’t say what language it is, but “haagen dazs” probably means something in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french/33680.md?page=1)