Part of the reason that the movie [Saving Private Ryan] was soo vulgar is that they were in France. Everyone in France is gross and vulgar....and they say the F word all of the time.
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He probably doesn't realize that when people follow up a vulgarity by saying, "Pardon my French," it's just a humorous expression, not to be taken literally.
~David D.G.
Te nique!
Think that could be translated as "fuck you." I dunno. It's been a while since I took French and profanity was never part of the cirriculum.
"Saving Private Ryan" tended to focus on Americans a lot so I don't think where they were would have changed anything. And just because you don't like the French government for one of the many reasons out there (its secularity, the influx of Muslims, their reluctance to go to war, whatever) doesn't give you the right to judge an entire country.
Also, how could you not love Private Jackson? Heck, I'm not Christian and I thought he was pretty cool.
Funny, I can't remember many French people appearing in the film let alone using the "F" word; as I recall most, if not all, of the swearing was done by Americans.
Yes, pastry and cheese is really gross. Merlot and Burgundy really disgust me. The Louvre is a pit of ugliness, and the Marquisienne who risked all to rescue downed Allied pilots in Nazi-occupied France were all a bunch of surrender-happy wusses. Ferme ta guele, piece de merde.
I remember a comic I read once, where the punchline was that "the F word" was "French." Anyways... what is it about american fundies (and idiots) and hating the French for no good reason whatsoever? It's just... absurd, rly.
It is made by americans, about americans. It's not even entirely shot in France.
If that proximity to zi friench enough to make them cuss, americans must be the most weak minded people in the world.
@Freboy
americans must be the most weak minded people in the world
Bingo. Well, they are among us. Where else in the world could you find 60 million people who'd vote for Bush. TWICE!! And they'd do it right now, if they could. I work with one of them.
/Everyone in France is gross and vulgar..../
Uh, Porterbob, have you SEEN any French movies? You know, the ones with the utterly gorgeous actors and actresses in them? I dare you to go up to Catherine Deneuve and tell her that she's gross and vulgar.
Not all the time, but we do, properly, when speaking of polar wildlife: we call seals "phoques" and we pronounce it exactly like the F-bomb.
I learned this the hard way when I wanted to show a bit of my French Canadian culture to a group of anglophones, and I chose Beau Dommage's classic "Complainte du phoque en Alaska"... right after swearing had been forbidden. Major oops.
This being said, va donc jouer dans l'trafic, mon asti d'crisse d'imbécile! (literally, go play in traffic, you goddamn fucking imbecile!)
They do say the F-word in France, and more than one of them. La France, Français, Française, nous mangeons du fromage.
Perhaps this idiot thought the Normandy landings were actually like, I don't know, a trip to the fairground ot a church picnic.
Newsflash, dumbnut. The movie may be set in France (hard for it not to be, really) but it's an American production in English. Duh.
espece de putain de connard de merde, d'ou tu insultes mon putain de pays?
/sarcasm off. If what we see from the US is representative, you'd be surpred at how little cursing there actually is in France, as opposed to the US. Be polite, say "Bonjour" when you meet people and don't be put-off when people don't smile as the default expression - we wait until we have a reason before smiling. You should be fine.
Oh and on't try to frennch-kiss people as a greetng, or you'll get a slap (if you're lucky) for your troubles. The "french kiss" is used in the same occasions in France as in the US, the greeting kiss is called "la bise" and i a totally diferent maneuver.
If you must know, you touch your cheek to the other's cheek and kiss the air. For people you are more intimate with, you actually kiss the other's cheek. Repeat two to four times, alternating cheeks, depending on where you are in France (you won't be expected to know when to stop, so take a cue from the other here). Works between women or between a man and a woman, dudes usually just check hands.
@alethe
I don('t know if it's the same in canadian slang, but here "phoque" also happens to be a derogatory term designing gay men- "queer" used as a noun. You just managed a bicultural faux pas. Congratulations.
You don't even know your national stereotypes, everybody knows the French are obsessed with art, fashion and fine cuisine.
And I don't know if they have the f-word in French.
The F word being France, of course.
Unpatriotic cheese-eating surrender monkies! How dare they not be American!
And hey, funny-irony-time! Fuck is actually English! But the French, who had recently conquered England at the time, declared the English language "vulgar" (there's that word again!) and so banished it from the English language. So really....fuck you.
Come now - if you want the best francophone invective, you go ask the Quebecois for a demonstration of sacre .
Quoting The Merovingian from "The Matrix" movies: "Nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère".
No, we don't, We have plenty of bad words of our own, without needing to borrow your F-word.
We have a rugbyman here, a big man with long hair and a big beard (you would love it) who said to an English journalist :
"We are in France. We speak French."
Funny fact : WTF could be transcribed in french as "ouate de phoque", it would mean "seal's cotton wool"
The Allies would like to apologise to Porterbob for arranging the invasion of Europe to take place in France. Next time, they'll choose Estonia.
Furthermore, the Germans would like to apologise for shooting at the invaders, causing said invaders to use the F word instead of saying, "gee what a lovely day to be at the beach."
Oh, and seriously, I bet you couldn't even find France if you were armed with an atlas and a GPS. The rough French equivalent of the F word is probably "Merde", which as you may have noticed contains no F's whatsoever.
Confused?
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