So if we take for example the image of an animal, a dog, well there is a tail and a head. A tail is the back end; the head is the front end. Without that, the story means nothing. We could also imagine the absurdity of an animal, a dog for example, which would have neither tail nor head, which would have no tail and no head. We would be disturbed and the image would even be difficult to believe.
Well, that's how we use the expression. When we say that something has neither head nor tail, it means that it is incoherent, incomprehensible, there is no logic, there is no sense, quite simply. Neither head nor tail means it is incoherent, it makes no sense. As usual, we will see three examples so that you understand the meaning of this expression.
The first would be someone who says: "Did you like the film? I thought it made no sense." The person who says that is asking a friend for their opinion, but by saying that he thought the film made no sense, he is indicating that the film seemed incomprehensible to him, difficult to understand, that there was no logic, that there was no russia whatsapp number data real meaning, that it lacked coherence. So he was indicating that the film made no sense, quite simply. No sense, it made no sense, it was incoherent.
Another example: "It's always complicated to talk to him. What he says makes no sense." By saying this, we are accusing a person of lacking coherence, of not being really easy to understand, of lacking logic. What this person says, often, well, it doesn't make sense.
Last little example: "She arrived late again and she told us a story without head or tail to justify herself". Here, it is a small variation. We said "a story without head or tail", we could also have said "a story that has neither head nor tail", but the meaning is the same. We indicate here that this story is not understandable, is not coherent and that in fact we do not believe it. We say that she arrived late, but that she told us a lie, so we simply do not believe this person.
Now let's move on to the pronunciation part of this podcast and I suggest you work on the "an" sound in "sans", "sans queue ni tête". It's a nasal vowel that often causes some problems for learners, so we're going to look at that together. I'm going to have you repeat a certain number of words that include the "an" sound and you repeat after me, quite simply. And then, we'll review the expression together. So here we go. You repeat after me.