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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

I was wondering how she said it in French cause we don’t really have a translation for fuck (that would be "j’emmerde" or "j'encule" in that specific case).

"Fuck aux réacs, fuck à cette extrême droite, fuck à tous ceux qui voudraient nous enfermer dans la guerre de tous contre tous"

Yeah ok, it’s easier that way, well done Madame La Maire de Paris 👌

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I realize l'Académie Française frowns at the introduction of English words into the French language, but it feels like they should make an exception in this case.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fuck l'Académie Française as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuck everything

(caption: burn it all down to start afresh)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

We should have elected this guy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I assume you wrote that on le computer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Exactement. With the clavier.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately the Académie Française is mostly full of crusty old men who think they can dictate how the french language evolves, so we rarely care about what they have to say

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They should insist that it gets written in the Constitution.

Le peuple français proclame solennellement son attachement aux Droits de l'homme et aux principes de la souveraineté nationale tels qu'ils ont été définis par la Déclaration de 1789 [...]

En vertu de ces principes et de celui de la libre détermination des peuples, la République proclame Fuck aux réacs, fuck à cette extrême droite, fuck à tous ceux qui voudraient nous enfermer dans la guerre de tous contre tous.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

“Fuck aux réacs, fuck à cette extrême droite, fuck à tous ceux qui voudraient nous enfermer dans la guerre de tous contre tous”

I want to etch this above my home's front door

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

don’t really have a translation for fuck

Certified not Quebecois

Fuck is like their word for eh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I for one embrace the use of fuck in french as new word.

Je fucke

Tu fuckes

Il/Elle fucke

Nous fuckons

Vous fuckez

Ils/Elles fuckont

Or you can optionally drop the standard conjugation and just say fuck, idk. Also, "je the vais fucker" for "imma fuck you up"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ils/elles fuckent

Je vais te fucker

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't you use something with putain instead, like « putain de réacs » ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yes you can, but it won't be the same meaning.

"Putain d’extrême droite" would be "fucking far right" and not "fuck the far right".

That's not much but one is being annoyed at something, the other is actively insulting something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe something like “qu’ils aillent se faire foutre” lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes it could be "Qu'ils aillent se faire foutre" as well.

So many ways of saying fuck according to different situations, it is better that she said "fuck" as a french version would have been too vulgar and would have provoked some political scandal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'm partial to "j'encule," which also would work in that context.