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Nice. The French translation of "copy and paste" is "copier-coller". A friend and colleague calls it "copier-déconner", where "déconner" is a word play on "col

Nice. The French translation of "copy and paste" is "copier-coller". A friend and colleague calls it "copier-déconner", where "déconner" is a word play on "coller" that means "to screw up", so "copy and screw up".

richardbarosky 4y ago
Haha, nice. Apparently that word is has quite the wide range of meanings. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9conner https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9conner "remove one's penis from a vagina"
- mdp2021 4y ago
  The equivalent (the heir) of that 'con' in the anglosphere is the four letter word that seemingly is only allowed to the East-End, to Peter Cook, and makes everybody else below the Hadrian's wall faint.
  - moistly 4y ago
    Also a term of endearment between Aussie blokes.