Trumpitis is apparently highly contagiousâŚ
No wonder Donald likes him so much. Similar tastes, literally!
This is a comical, but straightforward, case of âlost in translationâ. In French, it is a common and innocuous compliment to say that a woman or girl is âdelicieuxâ, which more or less means lovely, charming, etc. A few years ago when I lived in Paris and was part of a bilingual conversation group, a very proper French mother complimented me (In English) on how âdeliciousâ my 9 year old daughter was. She was mortified when I explained the very sexual connotations of such a phrase in English.
Macron is actually rather prone to these minor translation errors when he speaks English (which he does with greater fluency than our president, of course).
Dang it, you stole my comment (in spirit, if not in actually identical phrasing)!!
The quite tragic thing is that, the better your fluency in a language other than the one(s) you grew up speaking, the more people make the erroneous assumption that you understand all of the subtleties. If you speak relatively brokenly, people will far more often assume you may not exactly have meant what you said and give you the benefit of the doubt. But if you have learned well, they assume you understand all of the nuances as well.
Aaaaaaaand, guess what I just Googled.
Guess.
Alas, dude has a thing for grannies. Fucking weirdo.
Just canât keep old Pepe Le Pew down.
Not so âdeliciousâ. Must have been lost in translation.
Either way, Sen Gillabrand was just seen boarding a flight to Australia! The horror, the horror!
âZees Trump - always boasting of his cats! Telling me to touch them at the time that I so wished! And yet, in ze American Capitol - not one cat did I see.â
Oh, Manny, you Gallic galavanter. Câest delicieux!
Happens all the time speaking a second language. The French cognate means âcharmingâ or âdelightfulâ to them when applied to a person.
I so miss these types of âfaux passâ. It assumes a situation when a person was out of their comfort zone. Which in turn assumes the person has a comfort zone. A field where they are an expert on something. Where they donât have to lie their way thru⌠Instead I get to endure the moron Trump, his family, his entire administration and the most of the Republican legislature. For what sins?
Now Iâll go dig some trenches. It will be uplifting after this.
I studied French and still speak it passably. At one point while in college I was trying to describe how excited I was about something, and when I said âJe suis excite,â my professor took me aside to explain that, in French, âexciteâ does not mean excited, but rather aroused. Iâm certain that I was beet red.