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Y fait couler tout l’monde! (#420)

8 February 2012 by OffQc

Some language inspired from different places today:

At the supermarket yesterday, a girlfriend and boyfriend were arguing in front of the onions. The girlfriend lost her temper and yelled at her boyfriend:

T’es ben difficile pour un cuisinier!
You’re really difficult for a cook!

Now that you’re a dzidzu professional, you know how the d in difficile is pronounced. (Clue: dz. More here.)

In the TV show Les Parent, teenager Olivier tells his parents that his maths teacher fails everybody:

Y fait couler tout l’monde!
He flunks everybody!

Sometimes you’ll hear je suis pronounced as cht when the next word begins with a vowel (but I’ll show this cht sound as j’t’ below):

Là, j’t’en tabarnak!
OK, now I’m pissed off!

The j’t’en part sounds like chten. The expression used here is être en tabarnak.

[Second quote from Les Parent, “À quel âge?”, season 4, episode 15, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 6 February 2012.]

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Posted in Entries #401-450 | 4 Comments

4 Responses

  1. on 8 February 2012 at 10:33 Paola Rizzato

    Us poor Europeans learning Parisian French don’t stand a chance! 😀
    Nevermind, I’m still going to keep trying 😉


    • on 8 February 2012 at 11:25 OffQc

      Quebec French, Parisian French, any French, any language… get lots of exposure to it and let things fall into place on their own. You do stand a chance — listen to a lot of French over a long period of time and you will get there!


  2. on 8 February 2012 at 18:19 Jaunty

    Felix, I absolutely love your site. It has so much info that is not provided in my class and I find it invaluable. I read your entries regularly – continue the excellent work!


    • on 9 February 2012 at 08:29 OffQc

      Thanks, Jaunty!



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