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In La Presse, Rabii Rammal writes an article in response to a video called “10 hours of walking in NYC as a woman.” This video shows a woman who receives unwanted attention 100 times in 10 hours walking through New York.
Rammal’s article (C’est rassurant, être un homme) contains a few Québécois usages.
Referring to the men who called out to the woman asking how she was doing, he writes:
Qu’est-ce que t’en as à colisser de comment elle va? What the hell do you care how she’s doing?
He also writes:
Tous, homme ou femme, ont le droit de ne pas se faire gosser dans la rue. Everybody, male or female, has the right to not be bothered in the street.
In the first quote, qu’est-ce que t’en as à colisser? (“what the hell do you care?” or even “what the fuck do you care?”) is an impolite usage.
Gosser quelqu’un means “bother, exasperate, nag someone,” example: y’arrête pas de me gosser avec ça, “he won’t stop bothering me about that; he won’t stop nagging me about that.” Rammal’s quote uses se faire gosser.
[French quotes written by Rabii Rammal in C'est rassurant, être un homme, La Presse, 2 November 2014.]
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When you order food at a fast food restaurant, you’ll need to know these expressions: C’est pour ici? (Is it for here?) C’est pour manger ici? (Is it for [eating] here?) C’est pour emporter? (Is it to go?) C’est pour ici ou pour emporter? (Is it for here or to go?)
At a fast food restaurant in Montréal this weekend, the cashier left me wondering what my third possibility was for where to eat my food.
- C’est pour emporter?
- Non.
- C’est pour manger ici?
- Is it to go?
– No.
– Is it for here?
:-|
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