Bonjour, “putain” est une expression très grossière dans toute la France, c’est l’équivalent du “fuck” en anglais. Putain est un mot qui a l’origine désigne les prostituées qui sont familièrement appelées les putains. Le sens du mot a ensuite quelque ...
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« Impeach the mf » : …le fils de pute ? (NSFW)
Business EditorsOui, les deux sont également méchants, sans fondation réelle quant à la condition de la personne insultée. Non, cela doit être très rare en comparaison avec « putain de ta mère » qui est un terme standard, mais typique seulement ...
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Are Francophones in general adopting this English swearword?
Business EditorsWe usually use a lot of traduction of “fucking” and “fuck”, but using these two words in english language is not common, even among the teenagers. You can’t have a very relevant answer as it depends of people around us ...
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How vulgar is “merde?”
Business EditorsSince it is a french & english compound nickname, it looks like he didn’t manage to create “shithappens” so he made “merdehappens”, so you should consider it as if it were “shit”, since, I guess, people will read it as ...
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How do French speakers excuse profanity?
Associations EditorsFirst, this is very difficult to answer in general: such things depend widely on the person speaking, its usual language and adequation to context. Regarding expressions that cover the same type of usage as “pardon my French”, I would translate ...
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What’s so great about French profanity?
Business EditorsNo, there’s nothing inherently special about French profanity. It’s just a reference to the fact that many people consider French to be one of the most beautiful languages, and therefore even its “ugly words” are beautiful. a character in Quebec ...
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« Putain », « merde » et « bordel » : sont-ils grossiers ?
Business EditorsAll of them (putain, bordel, merde) are clearly rude words, and are far from being considered acceptable in all situations, or as words from a standard register. For instance, none of these would be acceptable in a job interview. A ...
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Nuancier des grossièretés
Associations EditorsMerde est beaucoup moins fort que “shit”. Le mot anglais le plus proche de merde me semble être “crap”. J’ai souvent vu des petits enfants francophones dire merde en public sans que leurs parents réagissent, ce qui ne serait pas ...
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Identification de propos dans une vidéo (d’Élie Yaffa du 10 janvier 2019) ?
Business Editors1: Tu sais que ton album il va flopper (il va faire un flop) 2: T’es en hess (t’es en galère, tu as du souci à te faire)