Tournesol 🌻 (@tournesol)

Your Autistic Life @yourautisticlife@universeodon.com

if you translate word for word, you might imply bestiality

Ok, so... yeah... er... in French-Canadian French we do have an expression that goes like this:

Il a fucké le chien pendant un bout.

Here's the horrible part. If you translate this literally, you get:

He fucked the dog for a while.

(Google Translate gives a translation synonymous to the above, by the way. Ew...)

Understandably, this is a horrifying thought. I'm not going to go over all the possible meanings, but one meaning is:

He faffed around for a while.
He wasted time for a while.

That's what it means.

Literal translations sometimes work, but often you end up with stupid results.

(No dogs have been harmed in the production of this toot.)

#french #english #LiteralTranslations #fuck

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Tournesol 🌻 @tournesol@peculiar.florist

if you translate word for word, you might imply bestiality

@yourautisticlife as a french person, I’m glad this post went the way it did but omg what a ride :bolbsweat:

et wtf Quebec ??? pourquoi vous avez des expressions aussi fuckées :neofox_googly_shocked:

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Your Autistic Life @yourautisticlife@universeodon.com

if you translate word for word, you might imply bestiality

@tournesol Parce que c'est l'fun.

Sérieusement, je suppose que c'est comme l'anglais:

I'm going to fuck you up.

Qui n'implique pas l'acte sexuel. Au Québec, en français, le mot fuck, je dirais est plus divorcé du sens sexuel qu'en anglais.

Tournesol 🌻 @tournesol@peculiar.florist

if you translate word for word, you might imply bestiality

@yourautisticlife finalement, comme le français métropolitain :tinking:

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Brome @brome@social.marud.fr

@tournesol @yourautisticlife
En France on utilise beaucoup le mot niquer dans pas mal de cas.
"Oh non, t'as niqué ma mise en page !"
"Si on arrive en retard au ciné, on va se faire niquer, les bonnes places seront déjà prises"
"Je me suis niqué la cheville en tombant"
"Éteins la lumière, ça nique les yeux !"