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After growing up with Astérix and learning half my French from it (the other half from Tintin) there was a pun that I finally got only now, many years later, th
by YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
After growing up with Astérix and learning half my French from it (the other half from Tintin) there was a pun that I finally got only now, many years later, thanks to a French colleague.
In "Le Domaine des Dieux" (The Manions of the Gods) there is a character called "Oursenplus". This always registered to me as saying "And a bear" ("ours" is "bear" and "en plus" is like "one more" or "on top of that").
Then I asked my colleague: "I don't get this Oursenplus pun from Astérix, can you tell what it means?".
My colleague hadn't read the issue so he didn't immediately catch what I said, but he replied "Comment? Ours en peluche?"
Which, said quickly with a French accent sounds very much like "oursenplush" (with a "shh") and means ... "teddy bear" ("peluche" is "felt"; a plushy).
- jacquesm 3y agoI have this kind of epiphany regularly with pop songs that I've known since childhood. I hear them again and my English is so much better now than it was back then that I realize I completely misunderstood the lyrics.