#ask me about french

[caleblandrybones]

!! ☯ :)

☯ ohh havent had this one yet. one thing i love is the regional languages, breton, provençal, picard, alsacien... i love that they subsist and are still taught in some schools and people are picking them up. also some folks in brittany wants it to be independent and i think it should, i want to see what would happen

#thank you carrot mwah #ask me about french #asks

[hedgehog-moss]

Hi! Can I ask you a question about France? How common or uncommon or weird is the use of coucou as a greeting? Especially between adults. Would it be super weird if I went to France and greeted someone like that?

I don't trust the click-baity articles that show up when I google this (I'm not even sure all of them were written by humans), so I'd rather ask someone that, you know, actually lives over there.

Thanks, have a nice day

Hi! Coucou is a pretty common greeting including between adults (though it's more often used by women as it does sound a bit cutesy), but I think it implies pre-established friendly relations, unlike the neutral Bonjour or Salut. I only use it with family and friends. Friendly acquaintances too—okay now that I think about it, it's hard to say where I draw the coucou line. I use it as a greeting when I enter the library if there's no one in there but the librarian because I know her well, but if there are other people in the room I say bonjour even if they're children. And of course if I knew the librarian very well but didn't like her she wouldn't get a coucou. You kind of have to follow your heart with this greeting.

But definitely don't use it to greet people in a shop or formal context or anyone you don't know well because that would be weird (in my view!) Coucou sounds affectionate, I often use it in writing to set the tone ("Hi I am an informal unthreatening email !") (also if a French person sends you a text that starts with Cc, that's textspeak for coucou)

To me "Salut !" is "Hi!" while "Coucou" is Hi :) <3

#ask #maybe other french people feel differently about it? #and i feel you re: not trusting internet articles for this stuff they are traitors #sometimes i look up a polysyllabic latin-rooted word we use in french like does it exist in english too? #and several serious-looking websites tell me yeah this word totally exists in english go ahead! #we've adopted it from french it's fine #then i ask a native speaker and they're like no one has ever used this word out loud without sounding like a pretentious tryhard ever

[svtskneecaps]

oh good news for those of us who only saw the english version of the french union call for testimony, or who don't speak french:

when in english they said quackity "half-heartedly" acknowledged things, in the french version the word they used was "demi-mot". having consulted a few dictionaries i THINK it's not a direct translation or at least not a wholly accurate one. from what i'm seeing, "reconnaître à demi-mot" roughly means "to admit indirectly". translation of "demi-mot" directly seems to be something like "implicitly" or "without spelling things out".

i've linked the sources where i found the translations for any english speakers who want to double check and please, any native french speaker who disagrees PLEASE tell me if you have a different translation than was provided, or have insight on the connotation!!

"half-heartedly" implies a lack of personal or emotional investment which i think got a lot of us on the defensive (certainly raised my eyebrow) but i think that's just an imperfect translation. from what i'm seeing, 'demi-mot' doesn't have those same connotations.

(incidentally, putting 'reconnaître à demi-mot' into google translate does produce 'to acknowledge half-heartedly'; no shade, to be clear, considering they're a FRENCH union i wouldn't blame them if they had to use online translation tools, and 'demi-mot' is hard to translate, at least for me)

both english and french versions of the call are linked in this post

ADDITION FROM THE REPLIES:

@selemina : "French speaker here, you are very right! In this context, it could mean "he recognized, without saying so explicitly [...]". Or it is a notion of not enough being said on a subject. There is a layer of secrecy to something said 'à demi-mot', which often implies dishonesty. Applied to this context, I think the union is suspicious of Quackity's latest declaration (probably from seeing many dishonest people in charge before) but still reporting the facts." (THANK YOU!!)

#qsmp #qsmp discourse #merci à mon prof; j'ai fait beaucoup de traduction #je suis prête à trouver des mots difficiles >:) #je ne peux pas parler français mais je peux traduire des mots individuels #sorry francophones lol #sept ans mais je ne sais rien mdr #i thought about asking for correction by french speakers in french but then the phrasing got too complicated and i chickened out #i would be SO EMBARRASSED IF I FUCKED UP #i know native french exist on this website now ;w; ça me fait peur #this post is a mess i'm so nervous to post this lmfao

[owlf45]

I've been meaning to read Imaginary, but haven't gotten to doing so. Is it that one where AFO is Izuku's dad and he runs a villain organization that helps people or am I remembering wrong?

,,, @gentrychild...?

#youve mistaken me for the other owl. #imaginary is about izuku growing up with the ghost ofa holders as his childhood friends (among other things) #my asks #imaginary #french fae

[renaissancefailmarriage]

françois in the 19th century would try to engage gilbert in discussions of novels and it's the most frustrating endeavor in the WORLD because gilbert is like the fuckign cinemasins guy. "why would emma bovary have an affair even though the scandal could ruin her. that was dumb. and therefore this book is Bad" level of literary analysis. françois seethes in sexual frustration and fights the urge to point out that gilbert is having an ill-advised affair RIGHT NOW. WITH HIM.

#hws france #hws prussia #prufra #gilbert is just so singleminded about everything he's kinda bad at appreciating a story if he can't directly relate #putting yourself in someone else's position?? sounds suspicious. and french. #nein danke! #ASK ME ABOUT MY 19TH CENTURY HUMAN AU WHERE FRANCOIS IS A WRITER

[ghostlysage]

ok hai guys pikmin time

this is it!!!! farewell again for a month!!!!

first two are from today

^^ these two are canon ty 😁

#pikmin #pikmin fanart #louie pikmin #i am louie’s number 1 defender #captain olimar #yellow pikmin #red pikmin #charlie pikmin #charlie is my fave :3 #alph pikmin #please ask me about them ple #french louie #british alph #scottish charlie #boston olimar #thank you #sages art extravaganza

[pinkyjulien]

Valentin Da Silva | 177/??

#Cyberpunk 2077 #Valentin Da Silva #Aldecaldos #Masc V #Nomad #Screenshot #Virtual Photography #AHGHF He looks cute in that even tho it's not something he'd wear normally GFHHGF #also cackling cause-- I wasn't planning on popping an april fool mod at all #I never did in the past and was just going to chill this year too #but remember that ask I got about Valentin's wilding outfit #Thinking back on it it's obvious people were getting bored again cause that whole ask was lowkey ridiculous #and I jokingly thought about how people would allow him to only wear stereotypical french stuff since he's half French (other half spasnish #that's how it came to be LMAO #Ngl I was waiting for one cringe fandom person to come into dm with a -oh that mod is racist actually- cause y'know #NOTHING WOULD SURPRISE ME LMAOOO #I say that but I already know there's some people out there who genuinely think that #wish they download Lokiina's grass mod To Touch Some #ANYWAY Bon poisson d'avril comme on dit ici <3

[mishapen-dear]

au where qbad chose the other way. his other home. finally return to heaven and the embrace of his first family. and his body lay rotting in that field never discovered forever. and pomme knew and dapper knew that he was dead and never coming back and pomme accepted it first, started acknowledging it first, and dapper kept searching for a full month before finally accepting the truth.

and then she gets to work.

she even has some of the theory worked out beforehand. he’d discovered all he’d wanted in this dimension before, and started to research others and how to go there. it’ll take time, and effort, and fieldwork, but Pomme will help, and then it’ll go even faster.

after all. what is heaven but another dimension to explore?

#and then they all live happily forever the End #pomme gets weekends experiencing the time blur #and weekdays building fun shit with her french parents #bad made some fucked up deals to make that happen and something something Consequences #because a story ending doesn’t mean the complications of life do #but theyre happy and together #and dapper gets to have more family too #IMAGINE her asking bad if she could keep an angel as a pet fuckin Picture It #qsmp dapper #qsmp badboyhalo #not pomme centric enough for me to tag her but imagine her gebtly smouldering the whole time she’s in heaven #like literally gently smoking. Heaven doesnt know what the fuck to do about the ??? genes she gets from antoine so she’s like a car on fire #that keeps working forever anyway

[myossdeux]

Another funny name choice by the AJ Trilogy french localization team : Bobby Fulbright's one

He's named Justin Brillant

Justin can be read as "Juste un" (just a ... / only one), the part "Just" explicitly refers to "Justice" (In justice we trust! Or may I say, In Justin we trust!). "Brillant" means "shiny, intelligent.. brilliant" and fits with the bright design and the cheerful personality he has. Despite him being always a bit silly and over reacting every time you talk to him while investigating, he's indeed brilliant at his job and helps Blackquill a lot as a detective. About the nickname Blackquill gives him, "Fool Bright": in french it's now "Brouillant". "Brouiller" is a verb that means "to confuse, to blur", and yeah he really does sometimes. It's a very nice pick because in french we have a common phrase that says "brouiller les pistes" (the expression in english is "to cover one's tracks") and if you played AA5, you know where this is going haha

#ace attorney #apollo justice trilogy #bobby fulbright #fun fact time #i think i'll make a longer post next time with all the witnesses french names from the AJ trilogy #i could explain those from the first trilogy too? #u can send me request in my ask box if you're curious about one specific character btw

[iamhereinthebg]

Gonna share badly translated panels from the official french translation because I can

I can’t verbally explain how much Akane ROASTED Aoi in chap 69 . He really took the ‘I am gonna end this woman’s whole career” to a next level

:))))

--> to explain the ‘you’re pretending you don’t know’

#for her defense #Aoi actually said that 'he suck!' rather tan him being stupid #she was also fcking done on her part #Teru really went 'oospie?' when he saw them #I can't invent this sht he said 'mince alors' I wanna burn the translators #ty Mari for being okay with my half assd translation from french to english of the whole chapter too #Akane finished his rant and litteraly looked at her and go 'well?' #they need to insult each other every two pages in this translation idk why #Teru really went 'not cool bro' when Akane said 'what are you doing here?' #idk why the vibes of the french translations are so chaotic #but I am here for that #Aoi also said 'I asked you more than once :)))' when talking about his watch l o l she was done #oh and in terms of emotionnal damage they also put wavy texts #when the characters are either dying or have really strong emotions and idk what to do with myself with this #toilet bound hanako kun #aoi akane #akane aoi #nothing too special on the others chapters tbh I just really wanted to translate this one because I love their talk ahah #Akane just refers to the seven mysteries as deities rather than gods too #which is closer to the idea of Kamis to me #good volume as always #next one is in one month :))) chap 71/72/73/74 are all good I am not ready #tbhk #random french translation #disclaimer: it's hard to translate the context which is why I didn't do more page too ahah #I can just say that they are using slangs and are hasrher l o l #the vibes is just 'Oh yes you're testing me uh?' #jshk #jibaku shonen hanako kun fanart #jibaku shounen hanako kun

[caleblandrybones]

❁ & ✓

❁ im incredibly biased because i speak it fluently and i have family in italy but. yeah italian

✓ oh god i have to find a third one 😭 "sucette" (lollipop) is funny because we literally call it a sucky. suckies are a type of candy. anyway

#thank you beautiful #ask me about french #asks

[rebelsafoot]

i have very normal opinions about them

#please this is a joke (mostly) #ouat #once upon a time #ouat fanart #zelena mills #zelena ouat #rumplestiltskin #ouat rumple #belle french #belle ouat #toxic throuple #this is for me and that one anon who asked about them

[gnomewithalaptop]

What is cue the sun? 👀

I need you to know I am kissing you on the mouth rn (platonically) -- I've been rotating this plot in the microwave since like. mid-august.

It's transcendence au (obvi) but here's the basic hook:

The year is 7098. The last Mizar (Fang Wu -- and shoutout to aba_daba_do for making a kickass OC) has been dead for four years now, and Alcor has been MIA for about the same amount of time. In their absence, the North American continent has broken out into a full-on, cross-continental war, with the main players being the Greater Austinian Monopoly (formerly known as Texas) and the Alaskadian Collective (Alaska, plus some parts of Canada and north-eastern Russia).

In a last-ditch effort to find some long-forgotten piece of magical information that could win the war, Alaskadian scientist Fatima Tursynbekova (an r!Ford) is sent to the abandoned site of what used to be Gravity Falls, accompanied by her troubled teenage daughter Olya (an r!Gideon). They're expecting to find little more than scant remnants of a town that was razed to the ground over thirty years before -- not much better than an archaeological expedition if anything.

However, what they find instead is a thriving small town -- the inhabitants of which are all completely and utterly convinced that it's the year 2016 (feat. the OG Mystery Twins and an extremely sus Stan Pines).

Anyways blah blah blah romance, secrecy, interpersonal drama but COME LOOK AT THE MAP I MADE I spent entirely too much time on it and I've been dying to share:

(Plus better quality image link for if tumblr steals all my pixels)

#this-is-gnomes-writing-tag #transcendence au #beloved mutuals #asks #cue the sun #if i mention a long fic this is what i'm talking about #unfortunately haven't had as much time to work on it now that the semester's started but trust me it still lives in my head rent free #anyway Tranzian as a language is something I stole from one of Gauvain's old fics because I was like 'that's so silly and meta i love it' #also pls don't look too hard at the translated city names i only speak english and russian i tried my best with what i had okay #yes Palo Rojo was just me renaming Baton Rouge to be less french bc I thought it would be funny #might go in there and make edits to stuff as i make changes to the worldbuilding but for now this is it!! #the only difference between ontarian french and regular canadian french is that the adjectives go before the nouns btw #this was definitely a conscious decision and not just something i made up on the fly after a translation error

[svtskneecaps]

dude i fucking love how this server has communication as its premise and built into its fucking core. i fucking love that. bc it's one thing to be like 'this server is about multilingual communication and cultural exchange!!' bc that could present in any NUMBER of ways but like. with the federation and the eggs and a common shared goal they all decided WE ARE A TEAM. and like, ok,

when baghera was sus of jaiden because of the thing when pomme died and jaiden had been the reason baghera left her side for the only time that day, i wasn't even worried. i wasn't worried bc i was like "we just wait. because i know they will TALK TO EACH OTHER." and I WAS RIGHT. TWO DAYS LATER IT WAS ALL CLEARED UP AND BAGHERA WAS HELPING HER OUT WITH CUCURUCHO

and the ordo theoritas is functionally a secret organization. it would be SO EASY to gatekeep the lore, on grounds of "the federation is always watching and anyone could be a spy" and yet the ordo theoritas says that, like bad SAYS THAT, says OUT LOUD, "anyone could be a traitor" and then turns around and goes "hey person i've had a few days' worth of conversations with, here's a detailed rundown of everything we've learned about the island's mysteries, and the secret location of the ordo base". SOFIA was supposed to be secret from everyone, and for a little bit she was. but now like, the ordo theoritas is showing her to everyone. it would be SO EASY to hide things and to gatekeep things but they just. don't do it. here's the supercomputer!!!! don't forget to grab her waystone so you can come back anytime!!!

bad learns something. "i need to tell forever/cellbit/baghera". forever figures out a new way to protect the eggs, and he gets it to everyone within days. cucurucho tries to have a secret conversation and the entire server knows about it almost instantly and there are three people buried in the walls reading the subtitles and giving each other meaningful glances

i love it. i love it. miscommunication plotlines drive me up the fucking wall and the fact that i wasn't even SCARED when jaiden and baghera could easily have angled into an angsty tangled web of that and instead just MET WITH EACH OTHER AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING AND CLEARED THE AIR ALMOST IMMEDIATELY was so fucking breathtaking. and this is a multilingual server. this is a MULTILINGUAL SERVER. i love it. i love it so much i want to cry. it's a server for communication and people Communicate, it would have been SO EASY to slip into monolingual factions and stick to the familiar but they DIDN'T. they DIDN'T. WE GET TO HAVE A THEORY TABLE WITH SO MANY LANGUAGES SITTING AROUND IT. we get to have conspiracy walls in every language!!!! idk sometimes i forget how fucking CRAZY all this is, like the scale of what they've accomplished

so yea thank you to quackity and the qsmp admins for this, and thank you to the streamers for hearing 'this is about connections' and taking it ENTIRELY to heart, and also thank you to whoever the fuck decided to give quackity's school class the job to look after a fucking egg to learn about parenting. bc holy shit. holy shit.

#qsmp #this is a mess but i keep marvelling at it ever since jaiden's streams #just that. it could have gone to hell. but they TALKED TO EACH OTHER. #and i kept seeing people on tumblr like 'nooo they're dividing them 😭' and i kept thinking in my head: #'it's ok. don't panic. don't worry. they're so good about communicating: roier will say something or jaiden will say something' #'and they'll resolve anything right there and then' #i fucking love it. i fucking love it. there have been cross lingual projects before that didn't breed community like this does #everyone is trying so hard to protect everyone. forever and baghera didn't even trust quackity and they were still trying to protect him #i can't express how much this silly fucking server means to me. i can't explain it #its so good. its so good. i love it so much i swear to god #like i promise you if some of the less active members were to step back online and ask about the lore #they'd get a FULL fuckin rundown of it even though the ordo theoritas is technically a secret society #just immediately #i love it. there may be gaslighting and girlbossing but there is NO gatekeeping #unless we count the french exp farm lmfao #idk idk idk!!!!! it means so much to me i swearrrrrrr #THEY'RE A TEAM YOUR HONOR. THEY!! ARE!!! A TEAM!!! #shut up vic #block game brainrot

[bullmotif]

how it feels to not be able to spend 400 hours a day researching history events that are consuming your brain

#i cannot live like this. a few days ago i was at a therapy session and since i havent talked about anything but the french revolution for #around a month she asked me to do an exercise where i had to visualize the sea n shi and i started laughing so hard because i kept thinking #about those french mfs and the more she asked me to focus the more i was thinking about them. the rot consumes #frev #napoleonic era #.

[listedbuildings]

i love quasi & elliott. soo normal about these three.

#quasi #elliott smith #sam coomes #janet weiss #paul pulvirenti cameo hey #god knows the things i would do to have been able to see these three in action together #that french tv waltz 2 performance is so special to me. they were just phenomenal #90s music #90s #i know way too much about quasi so if you happen to have any quasi related questions or just wanna know some cool trivia… ask 😁