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[greghousesgf]

I wish the New Yorker would not put random French words in their articles that don't even have anything to do with France. Not everybody can read French and it's a pain to have to go look them up all the time.

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[conuly]

What word?

[greghousesgf]

"soixante-huitard". apparently it means they knew what was going on and allowed it to happen. used in the context of the parents of a 14 year old girl who was being molested. Why they couldn't say this in English I don't fucking know.

That's wha ah speak with this ouutraageous accent you silly English kuh-nnigguts!

[frith]

I've had unusual French words popping up in the fantasy horse-punk fan fiction I've been reading recently. Now I speak French, so I don't have to look them up, but it left me wondering since when had these words entered common English vocabulary.

Re: That's wha ah speak with this ouutraageous accent you silly English kuh-nnigguts!

[greghousesgf]

hahahaha I love Monty Python

[warriorsavant]

So far as I know, a "soixante-huitard" was someone who was present during the big street protests against "the system" in 1968. Sort of like saying you were at Woodstock with more rock-throwing.

They throw in des mots francais, because they are avant-garde, which, as any right-thinking person knows, is French for "incredibly pretentious"

[greghousesgf]

oh for fuck's sakes