**candle🕯️** @candle · 17 avr. 2017, 09:25

**candle🕯️** @candle · 17 avr. 2017, 09:25

candle🕯️ @candle

"la mienne est rouge" confuses me, what is la doing there

**Mr Nobody [OLD - delete soon]** @Hexalyse@mastodon.hexaly.se · 17 avr. 2017, 10:00

**Mr Nobody [OLD - delete soon]** @Hexalyse@mastodon.hexaly.se · 17 avr. 2017, 10:00

@candle French rule : always add useless words like "la", "le", "de" etc.

**Louve** @Louvelune · 17 avr. 2017, 10:10

**Louve** @Louvelune · 17 avr. 2017, 10:10

@Hexalyse @candle UNLESS an English idiom does use precise ones, and then we scoff at this nonsense and put vaguer ones instead: "HIS hands in HIS pockets" => well, DUH, he's not gonna put his neighbour's hands in the farmer's pockets... :< => "LES mains dans LES poches" ! :p

**Mr Nobody [OLD - delete soon]** @Hexalyse@mastodon.hexaly.se · 17 avr. 2017, 10:11

**Mr Nobody [OLD - delete soon]** @Hexalyse@mastodon.hexaly.se · 17 avr. 2017, 10:11

@Louvelune @candle Best French formulation is "Qu'est-ce que c'est (que ça) ?" who literally translates to "what is this that this is (that this) ?" .... :')

**Louve** @Louvelune · 2017-04-17T10:18:46Z

Louve @Louvelune

@Hexalyse @candle I LOVE this one.

Like most people, I never realized what it's actually saying until an English speaker pointed it out... Now I say it in English too! xD

"What is it that this is?" :<

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**Mr Nobody [OLD - delete soon]** @Hexalyse@mastodon.hexaly.se · 17 avr. 2017, 10:19

**Mr Nobody [OLD - delete soon]** @Hexalyse@mastodon.hexaly.se · 17 avr. 2017, 10:19

@Louvelune @candle Same here. I never really paid attention to the fuckery of this sentence. Like most of the weird stuff we say out of habit. Every language have this nonsense, but French is expert in the domain !