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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.
Pure Gold
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
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