French is evocative.

Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:53 pm
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French is evocative.

So, this morning in my mailbox, I had about 12 emails from... [Tim]. [Tim] was some kind of Christian marketing mailing-list that apparently signed up a lot of people to an open list, late last night. Someone posted back to complain, and the mess was started. ("stop spamming me" "I'm not spamming you, stop spamming me" ...) Rgh. I procmailed it and beefed to the people who own the netblock, but before I did, there was the following post from someone at hotmail.fr:

"allez tous vous faire enculer avec vos mails de merde"

Now that's a great sentence:

"You can all go fuck each other in the ass with your shit mail".

I think that's about the sense of it; it's a command, but just "Go..." doesn't carry the "Allez tous vous". I knew all the words but "enculer", which oddly enough didn't come up in high-school French.

Sometimes, English language just doesn't measure up.

Date: Friday, 1 September 2006 02:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poeticalpanther.livejournal.com
Chalice de tabernacle! Hostie!

My referee picture, as swearing always makes me think of being a referee.

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