Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material

Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by ubernostrum on Thursday April 12, 2018 @06:34PM (#16825571)

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".

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Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by glandium on Thursday April 12, 2018 @06:49PM (#16825665)

I'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.

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Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by ubernostrum on Thursday April 12, 2018 @07:13PM (#16825793)

I was unaware of it until it happened. Was told it's a Québecois thing.

They also taught me the helicopter joke.

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Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by gboudrias on Thursday April 12, 2018 @08:10PM (#16826057)

Québécois here, never heard it either. Maybe it's a regional thing or it was a different word.

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Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by ubernostrum on Thursday April 12, 2018 @08:50PM (#16826238)

Also possible they were messing with the American teenagers, since we were already being overwhelmed with differences between dialects of French.

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Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by blattimwind on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:18PM (#16826379)

Not in Utica, no, it's an Albany expression.

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