Karine, the social worker in 30 vies, is at the home of a teenaged student. She’s speaking with the student’s mother. During their conversation, the mother suddenly gets angry with Karine and tells her to get out.
Karine is surprised, and she doesn’t understand why she’s being told to leave. She asks the mother what she said wrong to make her angry all of a sudden:
Mais dites-moi au moins ce que j’ai dit de pas correct!
But at least tell me what I said wrong!
Maybe you’ll remember that correct is often used in the sense of “OK” or “fine” (c’est correct, that’s fine, that’s OK). Informally, you can hear correct pronounced as correc’.
Qu’est-ce que j’ai dit de pas correct?
Qu’est-ce que j’ai fait de pas correct?
[Quote from 30 vies, season 2, episode 91, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 29 February 2012.]
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