Thursday, 8 June 2017

French: A primer

 The French are infamously known for being revolutionary. So their language is of great interest to any budding socialist! Here are a few examples, to start you off.

French -> English.

Amie = Comrade.
Cueillir = To receive social prestige for reading Capital.
Pardonnez-moi = To tell others to leave you alone, so that you can read this amazing post.
Lire = Like.
Comment = Comment.
Soir = Subscribe.
Chanter = To sing the Internationale.
Inclure = To want to read Marxist texts.
Mourir = To read more Marxist texts.
Bonjour = I support Jewish Bolshevism.
Au revoir = I declare revolution!
C'est vrai = That's speaking truth to power!
Bourgeois = Villein.
Non = Yes.
Mademoiselle = A Marxist theoretician who is, sadly, female and therefore irrational. The term 'mad' here refers to intrinsic female hysteria.
Falloir = To fall.
Rire = To ri.
Choir = To fall.
Fleurir = To be a frock-coated, delicate communist.
Mirar = To be such an orthodox Marxist, that you share exactly the perspective of a Marxist text. A Spanish word, however it might as well be French because idk tbh I can barely tell them apart.
Surseoir = To be a serious revolutionary, as opposed to just ironically pretending to be a Marxist like me.
Adorer = To support the Communist Party.
Entendre = To edit the third volume of Das Kapital, obscure.
Expliquer = To write a preface.
Chercher = To build one's church, upon or not upon a firm surface.
Sortir = To have read all three volumes of Capital.

Pronouns:

Pronouns can be summarized as, 'That part of language that obeys historical materialism.' It is mediated in every case by the influence of things such as religion on the language.

Je = Us. (Due to the Christian faith, of course.)
Nous = Not us.
Tu = Two of us, a couple.
Il = The Mongolian Il-khanate.
Elle = A bad person.
Ils = The bubonic plague.
Vous = A married couple, after recital of marital vows.

Famous French locations:

Caution is advised when entering these locations unsupervised. Especially if you do not note what we have said about French so far, and hence are not yet familiar with basic phrases that might also alert you as to any difficulties. Be especially careful around 'revolutions,' which happen periodically around France.

Marseille: The origin of modern drama.
Paris: Associated with the Trojan War, where the borders of Trojan Paris were famously breached by the earliest form of blitzkrieg, a bunch of men standing inside a large wooden horse. (Tanks hadn't been invented yet.)
Tours: A tourist trap.
Lyon: A misspelled animal.
Nice: It's okay.
Strasbourg: An iceberg ten minutes before deadline.
Saint Etienne: A conjugation of the verb 'être.'
Angers: A place where, due to German ancestry, most people speak in a thick German accent.
Rennes: People who try to flee France (ie. reasonable people), yet are trapped.
Rouen: The same place.
Douai-Lens: People who occasionally turn into reptilian socialist aliens, as a voluntary act. Some 'conspiracy theories' exist concerning this place

7 comments:

  1. "Soir = Subscribe."

    Surprised me, but epihc post since. French for the lulz!

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  2. "Bourgeois = Villein." LOL okay!?!

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    1. "C'est vrai = That's speaking truth to power!"

      This is so commie it can be good

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    2. It is incredibly communist

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    3. Apropos of something, as French is the language of romance the French word for communist positions on society is 'cum-in-it.' They do not acknowledge the English word 'communism,' which they feel to be a string of vulgar and inelegant words designating the same thing. Trust us on this.

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    4. A good point actually

      It sounds too lewd...

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    5. Saint Etiennne was hilariuz

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