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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (11 children)

I would ask if I could go to the bathroom because that's all the French I remember from 7th grade.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (10 children)

    My favorite phrase is one I made to remember the unrelated vocabulary words on a page: je suis une fermier de paumplemousse et j'aime faire de l'apinisme.

    Why grapefruit, farmer, and mountain climbing were together is anyone's guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

    Nice, that phrase will definitely save your life the day you get arrested for littering citrus sheddings but the world at large happens to be vitamin-C deficient after climate change and water levels rising have pushed what remains of humanity to the heights of major mountain ranges where citrus trees can't naturally grow and they need a specialist with experience both in pamplemousse farming and alpinism to save our kind

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    I did say it was anyone's guess and that one's plausible enough!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

    Thank you, I do my best to output credible scenarios. Are you interested in a little correction of your phrase, or are its quirks part of the memory and the charm ?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I am always open to correction in order to better myself, merci et s'il vous plaît.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)
    • un fermier is the masculine form, une fermière is the feminine form
    • pamplemousse with no u in third position
    • alpinisme with an l in second position as in alps
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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    Merci, vous êtes une pêche.

    Edit: yes it's not a saying in french but I love swapping idioms back and forth between languages.

    Always thought it'd be a fun multilingual pun to name a grocery store Fat Cherry.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (3 children)

    yea lol I get it it's also a pastime of me and a friend, transliterating idioms like this. It was all started by his dad one day who explained something convoluted and finished with "...t'attrapes ma dérive ?" = you catch my drift ? We have been idiom-battling ever since, coming up with more and more absurd translations. I don't get the fat cherry though, do you mind explaining ?

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