I walked past a hair salon the other day called ATMOSP'HAIR. This interlingual pun works because the French word "atmosphére," (which shockingly, means atmosphere) has that accent on the 'e' and thus indeed rhymes with the English word "hair." I am amused.
Le Figaro (rightist newspaper) yesterday had an article about integration of minorities in mainstream American and French culture in which the president of the French High Counsel of Integration quotes the following statistics: "74% of French non-Muslims and 71% of French Muslims do not feel that there is much confict between Islam and the modern world." Really? I have my doubts. Will investigate further...
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"We all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life, but end in the end having lived only one." Clifford Geertz
"We all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life, but end in the end having lived only one." Clifford Geertz
Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
- Erin
- New York, The A'dax, United States
- Proto-anthropologist wandering about until grad school magically seems imminent.
Vocabulaire
- ...quoi. = a largely meaningless but ubiquitous sentence-ender, similar to the Canadian "...eh?"
- baaaah ouais = uhhhhh, yeah
- beu = weed
- bizutage = hazing
- bosser = to work
- bouffe = food/grub
- Ca craint.= That sucks.
- Ca le fait. = That's cool.
- Ca me casse les couilles. = That sucks (lit. breaks my balls)
- Ca me fait chier.= That sucks.
- Ca me kiffe. = I like that.
- carrément = dead on, straight up
- chaud = rough/difficult/dangerous/shitty (lit. hot)
- chiant = sucky/shitty
- con = asshole
- en fait... = actually...
- feuj = jewish (verlan of 'juif')
- fin... = well...
- foncedé = wasted/retarted (verlan of défoncé)
- genre = close to the american use of "like" as a merger of "um" and "sort of"
- grave = worrrd, or in some cases more like "bummer..."
- gueule de bois = hangover
- Je t'ai cassé! = Booyah!
- Je te jure... = I swear...
- mec/type = dude/guy
- merci mec = thanks man
- mettre le holà = to draw the line
- meuf = chick (verlan of 'femme')
- mince = damn/bummer
- n'importe quoi = bullshit/whatever
- nana = girl
- ooh la la... (infinite la's) = whoa
- ouam = me (verlan of 'moi')
- ouf = crazy/awesome (verlan of 'fou')
- pote = friend
- putain! = dammit, fuck (lit. whore)
- Qu'est-ce que tu fous? = What the hell are you doing?
- radin = cheapskate
- réunion = a meeting
- se casser la gueule = to fail
- serieux = seriously
- teuf = a party (verlan of 'fête')
- tout à fait = totally, completely
- tranquil = sweet/tight (can also be drawn out i.e. tranquiiiill)
- trop = ubiquitous emphasizer i.e. c'est trop cool = that's really cool
- truc = a thing
- Tu me fais chier = You suck.
- Tu te fous de ma gueule = You're bullshitting me
- Va te faire foutre. = Fuck off.
- à plus/à tout = cya/later
Brain Candy
He who sees himself in every being and every being in himself; he, because of this vision, abhors nothing. -Isa Upanisad
2 comments:
I take it that hair is not a freanch word.
Anonynous father
Correct. "Hair" in French is "cheveux," which would not work with the pun at all.
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