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When I studied French in school, on my first trip to Québec some of us were eating dinner and someone came by to ask if we wanted anything else. One of the gir
by ubernostrum 9y ago
When I studied French in school, on my first trip to Québec some of us were eating dinner and someone came by to ask if we wanted anything else.
One of the girls in the group responded "Non merci, je suis pleine" -- word-for-word "No thanks, I'm full". And got a laugh, because the connotation was not "I'm no longer hungry", but "I'm pregnant".
- glandium 9y agoI'm french, and I've never heard of that connotation for pleine. OTOH, if you tell me "je suis plein/pleine", I'll take it that you're drunk.
- ubernostrum 9y agoI was unaware of it until it happened. Was told it's a Québecois thing. They also taught me the helicopter joke.
- gboudrias 9y agoQuébécois here, never heard it either. Maybe it's a regional thing or it was a different word.
- ubernostrum 9y agoAlso possible they were messing with the American teenagers, since we were already being overwhelmed with differences between dialects of French.
- blattimwind 9y agoNot in Utica, no, it's an Albany expression.