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French Translation (was "Say what??? Horses, maybe?")
Don the Monkeyman, on host 142.179.222.100
Tuesday, October 26, 2004, at 10:47:56
Re: Say what??? Horses, maybe? posted by commie_bat on Saturday, October 23, 2004, at 18:24:59:
> > "Laissez les bons temps rouler!
> >
> It is French. It means "let the good times roll". It actually translates literally, word by word.
The fact that it translates word for word leads me to believe that it is the result of a native English speaker translating words one at a time with a French-English dictionary. It's also rare that a common phrase in any language has a word-for-word counterpart in another language, so if this is an example of that, it would be a rare one.
Perhaps a native speaker of French could fill us in on how comprehensible the phrase actually is in French?
> ^v^:)^v^
> F"spent 3 hours in France my whole life, and my French was useless there"B
Don Monkey
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