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Profanity in the French language, socially offensive language. Profanity is language that is generally considered by certain parts of a culture to be strongly impolite, rude, or offensive. It can show a debasement of someone or something , or be considered as an expression of strong feeling towards something.
Anti-French sentiment (Francophobia or Gallophobia) is the fear of, discrimination against, prejudice of, or hatred towards France, the French people, French culture, the French government or the Francophonie (set of political entities that use French as an official language or whose French-speaking population is numerically or proportionally large). [1]
Quebec French profanities, [1] known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong profanities in Quebec French (the main variety of Canadian French) and in Acadian French (spoken in Maritime Provinces, east of Quebec, and a portion of ...
Pardon my French" or "Excuse my French" is a common English language phrase for asking for excuse for one's profanity by the humorous assertion that the swear words were from the French language. It plays on the stereotype of Gallic sophistication, but can be used ironically.
Sacrebleu or sacre bleu is a French expression used as a cry of surprise, irritation or displeasure. It is a minced oath form of the profane sacré Dieu (holy God), which, by some religions, is considered profane, due to one of the Ten Commandments in the Bible, which reads "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."
Patois (/ ˈ p æ t w ɑː /, pl. same or / ˈ p æ t w ɑː z /) [1] is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics.As such, patois can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant.
"Adieu" (Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan song), the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 "Adieu" (Cowboy Bebop), a song composed by Yoko Kanno for the anime Cowboy Bebop
A further, more recent interpretation by biographer Michel Antoine argues that the remark is usually taken out of its original context. He argues that in the year it was made, 1757, France experienced the assassination attempt on the King, and the crushing defeat of the French army by the Prussians at the Battle of Rossbach, while anticipating the arrival of Halley's Comet.