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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
Though for severe operator malfunction in French, it's hard to beat the chorus of "Lady Marmalade." The correct answer to the question it poses is, "Not until you master a better grade of French, sweetie." That sentence was written by some first-year student (and a bad one) of the language who didn't know that Frenchmen put themselves to bed with a reflexive form of the verb coucher and who did not recall that addressing someone by the formal vous is as out of place as can be imagined for inviting somebody to jump in the sack with you. Who was Lady Marmalade bedding, the king of France? The worst pity of it is that a grammatical French sentence could have scanned: Veux-tu te coucher chez moi, ce soir?...
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It isn't the first time grammar has been sacrificed for a song lyric, nor was it the last... and that's ok... I live in the south, were you eat skrimps on the skreet in cun-ee-tah (spelled properly Conetoe).