Monday, December 8, 2008

Gripping Local Headline


Know what I mean?

Literal translation "Nantes (a city southwest of Rennes): they took coke and shit in car".

The first paragraph is funny too, it says that the police needed no help from the canine force in tracking down the offenders because the smell from the car was so strong and evident.

I wrote a while back about how the French twist perfectly good English words and impose new meanings to them. Well, apparently, I learned after being stopped in my tracks reading the papers today, "shit" means marijuana. Why, I ask. Again, nobody French has any answers.

WFT indeed.

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