MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Without doubt.
MADAME JOURDAIN: All this is very important to the management of
your house.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Assuredly. You both talk like beasts, and I'm
ashamed of your ignorance. For example, do you know what are you
speaking just now?
MADAME JOURDAIN: Yes, I know that what I'm saying is well said and
that you ought to be considering living in another way.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: I'm not talking about that. I'm asking if you
know what the words are that you are saying here?
MADAME JOURDAIN: They are words that are very sensible, and your
conduct is scarcely so.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: I'm not talking about that, I tell you. I'm
asking you: what is it that I'm speaking to you this minute, what
is it?
MADAME JOURDAIN: Nonsense.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: No, no! That's not it. What is it we are both
saying, what language is it that we are speaking right now?
MADAME JOURDAIN: Well?
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: What is it called?
MADAME JOURDAIN: It's called whatever you want.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: It's prose, you ignorant creature.
MADAME JOURDAIN: Prose?
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Yes, prose. Everything is prose that is not
verse; and everything that's not verse is prose. There! This is
what it is to study! And you (to Nicole), do you know what you must
do to say U?
NICOLE: What?
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Say U, in order to see.
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