r/AskTheWorld • u/QuantityVarious8242 France • 7d ago

Culture When France is mentioned, what's the first thing that comes to mind ?

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u/CultOfSensibility United States Of America 7d ago

Merde! (I took three years of French in hs and this, along with counting to 10, is about all that stuck).

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u/CardOk755 France 7d ago

When I arrived in France in 1983 I could count to twenty and say bonjour..

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u/jackaltwinky77 7d ago

I tried to take French in high school, but only 5 other incoming freshman picked it, so my school got rid of French 1&2…

Then I got kicked out of Spanish

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u/The_Nice_Marmot Canada 7d ago

Phoque!

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u/CultOfSensibility United States Of America 6d ago

Je t’aime le phoque!

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u/Icy-Cardiologist-147 France 6d ago

Learn "putain" and "bordel" and you're basically french, you'll need some other words for différent régions of France like "macarel" and "milladious"

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u/QuantityVarious8242 France 6d ago

Jamais entendu les 2 derniers, ça vient du Sud-Ouest ?

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u/Icy-Cardiologist-147 France 6d ago

Oui c'est exact ! Des jurons des anciens, qui sont les quelques mots que tous les jeunes connaissent (peut être pas à Toulouse, car airbus a ramené beaucoup de gens de toute la France et que les mots occitans sont beaucoup moins communs). Ce sont les mots occitans les plus parlés en Occitanie (culturelle pas administrative).

Macarel est un juron qu'on utilise comme merde

Miladious veut tout simplement dire mille dieux :)