How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by jgtrosh on Sunday December 17, 2023 @08:48PM (#38678395)

you can say « les vécés » (or « le vatér » if you're an old Belgian man maybe), but more common are « les toilettes », « les chiottes » (vulgar but very common)

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by kergonath on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:16AM (#38679761)

> « les chiottes » (vulgar but very common)

Don’t use that word with people you don’t know, though… Being rude when asking for something is not the best strategy.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by petesergeant on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:27AM (#38679797)

Mmm, same word as "shitters" in British English, with what I have to imagine is an identical etymology

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by uxp8u61q on Monday December 18, 2023 @02:21AM (#38680024)

It's not a daring conjecture that the slang word for toilet has an etymology related to shit.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by carlmr on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:00AM (#38680489)

In German there's "Scheisshaus" (shit house)

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