If you have access to Radio-Canada on television or all the videos on tou.tv, give the police series 19-2 a try.
You’ll find the dialogue in 19-2 challenging, but you really shouldn’t miss the show if you have the chance to view it. Season 2 is now underway.
In the first episode of season 2, viewers are confronted with difficult scenes to watch. The episode takes place in a secondary school where an adolescent has opened fire.
Not surprisingly, we hear the police officers in this series talk about guns. In different scenes, we hear them refer informally to a gun as un gun.
In one scene, a police officer yells at a suspect:
Drop ton gun! (Drop your gun!)
Then, more aggressively, he yells again:
Drop ton esti d’gun! (Drop your fuckin’ gun!)
Later, an officer yells at a suspect pinned to the ground:
Yé où ton gun? (Where’s your gun?, yé = il est)
Then, more aggressively:
Yé où ton esti d’gun? (Where’s your fuckin’ gun?)
We can look at some more language from 19-2 in future entries. If you’re looking for a series to watch containing a lot of street French, 19-2 won’t disappoint.
[Quotes from 19-2, season 2, episode 1, Radio-Canada, Montréal, 28 January 2013.]
À l’École de police de Nicolet, on utilise aussi «Drop ton gun». Official police French? See my http://oreilletendue.com/2012/12/04/woody-allen-aurait-du-aller-a-nicolet/
Good to know that there’s a “polite” equivalent to “drop ton gun”!
Is “flingue” used in Québec to refer to a gun ? In France it’s widely used in informal speech
It’s not a québécois usage. Also, the québécois Franqus dictionary (franqus.ca) has an entry for “flingue,” but it’s marked UF, meaning “usage français” (emploi caractéristique de l’usage en France).
merci !