How do you say 'cheeky sod' in French?
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Cush
Veteran
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- North Cumbria but still a Geordie
F**** off F**** T*** would work a treat
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
My son picked up the vernacular quickly- he'd know the best put-downs for Jean le Frog.
brockers
Senior Member
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- hollowed out volcano
Le singe est dans l'arbre etc
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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- Thumberland
Jean-Paul mange le poulet... anyone remember la famille Marsaud? Bunch of inbreds.
Baggy
Cake connoisseur
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- Where the chevrons are
Did they have a cat called Minet?
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I remember the elephant that balanced on a spider's web.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Surfin' Bird (post#3) on this language forum may have the answer.
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1856198
Rude stuff is very difficult to translate. When I was at school, I used to swap rude words with a French schoolboy so my knowledge used to be quite extensive. Last year, at the end of a fun late night meal near a F1 budget hotel in mid-France, I handed over a credit card to pay. In French she said "Insert your PIN please". A flicker of a smile must have crossed my lips. We were both helpless with laughter very shortly afterwards. Ah, schoolboys.
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1856198
Rude stuff is very difficult to translate. When I was at school, I used to swap rude words with a French schoolboy so my knowledge used to be quite extensive. Last year, at the end of a fun late night meal near a F1 budget hotel in mid-France, I handed over a credit card to pay. In French she said "Insert your PIN please". A flicker of a smile must have crossed my lips. We were both helpless with laughter very shortly afterwards. Ah, schoolboys.
Thanks for the link slowmotion. Seems like 'petit coquin' or 'petit rigolo' would be perhaps the closest, or at least the safest for me to use and feel comfortable with. I think you have to have a good grasp of a language and know how to manipulate it to be able to swear in a non-offensive, humorous way. I personally wouldn't risk it. Equally, I'd never try to translate a joke into French. I can be funny with quick, simple one-liners but nothing more complex.
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- the post-brexit wasteland
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gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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- North Wales
Petit rigolo is certainly the mildest and least offensive. Mais, a la guerre comme a la guerre, chacun fait comme il peut
Trust me, I am French and also teach it.
Trust me, I am French and also teach it.
