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Someone who’s French isn’t as old as mine will come along with a better translation, but essentially </i>Don’t make fun</I>, moquer=mock.


15 posted on 09/19/2012 3:52:42 PM PDT by SJackson (none of this suggests there are hostile feelings for the US in Egypt, Victoria Nuland, State Dept)
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To: SJackson
Someone who’s French isn’t as old as mine will come along with a better translation, but essentially Don’t make fun, moquer=mock.

I would translate it as "You mustn't make fun." As in "you're not allowed to make fun."

20 posted on 09/19/2012 4:27:26 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Without economic freedom, no other form of freedom can have material meaning.)
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H/T to SJackson for the post

I think a better translation would be:
“ my a$$, you like my a$$?”
les fesses = a$$

As the French government now closing down 20 Frwnch embassies and repatriating staff and families as the French are targeted for death bc of cartoons in Charlie Hebdo.

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31 posted on 09/20/2012 12:11:09 AM PDT by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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H/T to SJackson for the post

I think a better translation would be:
“ my a$$, you like my a$$?”
les fesses = a$$

As the French government now closing down 20 Frwnch embassies and repatriating staff and families as the French are targeted for death bc of cartoons in Charlie Hebdo.

*** FRENCH POLITICS AND CULTURE PING LIST ***

*** FREEPMAIL ME IF YOU WANT TO JOIN  ***


32 posted on 09/20/2012 12:11:32 AM PDT by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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To: SJackson

Pretty much on target. Sounds like slang for “Don’t make fun of me.”


72 posted on 09/21/2012 11:43:52 PM PDT by ArmyTeach (Our liberties, we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
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