Paris mayor drops f-bombs on anti-LGBTQ+ critics of Olympic opening ceremonies - LGBTQ Nation
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French Mayor Anne Hidalgo had some choice words for Trump and other far-right critics of the queer-inclusive opening events.
  • Skunk@jlai.luEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I was wondering how she said it in French cause we don’t really have a translation for fuck (that would be “j’emmerde” 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 👌

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      don’t really have a translation for fuck

      Certified not Quebecois

      Fuck is like their word for eh

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

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

      • Skunk@jlai.luEnglish
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        3 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.

    • Artyom@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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”

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • Sylvartas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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          3 months ago

          The alternative is English, where influencers and popular-girl types push something into popularity, and that drives the (d)evolution of the language. Quite actually the worst of us, the most shallow and short-sighted of us, people who peaked in high-school, people who have no idea how this or any other language works, decide how we speak.

          Now we have words which are synonymous with their own antonyms, pluralization for a derived word different from its own root, no collective retained clue about mass nouns, and “because Becky said it” kind of rules fighting with the “massive population of ESL and their bad adjective order is the most popular, ergo the standard” mess.

          And you complain about old scholars?

            • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Prescriptivism is exactly the opposite of blindly following vapid influencers and their eternal quest for ‘likes’. There is something in the middle between prescriptivism and Idiocracy, and that middle ground was the fucking point of what I said.

          • Magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovhEnglish
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            3 months ago

            To be honest, it is the same here. The old scholars are mostly for show (and weird ass polemics).

      • Skunk@jlai.luEnglish
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        3 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.

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Fuck the reactionaries, fuck this far-right, fuck all of those who would like to lock us into a war of all against all.

    Uncensored for your reading pleasure. Seems pretty badass to me and brought a smile to my face.

    Side note: Has the media bias bot blocked me? I guess it doesn’t like when I point out how biased it is.

    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I voted Anne Hidalgo for president in the first round. She’s so cool.

      She literally follows the fuckcars twitter account that I help run (I used to be a fuckcars mod on reddit).