petite anglaise

twunt

44 comments

1. Nice!

   Sparkle | 11:12 am

2. so… what is the translation of the word twunt? Preferrably in American English. Never heard it before…

   nrg | 12:07 pm

3. Oh wow, good for you Petite!

   Mlle Smith | 12:57 pm

4. me too, but why is the date set at th 9th April? Is it a leap year or have you advanced the date through some time travel process?

   Jez | 1:07 pm

5. brilliant!

   acechick | 1:09 pm

6. Way to go girl… 4000 readers, I am impressed. I get a lousy 40 a day if I am lucky…
   I so hope that your ex employer will have to pay! That should make a nice college fund for Tadpole… (Or just nice living money till you find another job). Somebody should hire you to write, what were you doing wasting your time away in that office. Writing is your future!

   photocat | 1:16 pm

7. It is even more amusing to listen to the article, not solely for the pronunciation of twunt but also the placing of Sarko in the ‘Elysée Belleville’. A Chinese restaurant perhaps?

   Fibsor | 1:35 pm

8. Hello petite anglaise,

   I just wrote an article in french about your story on the Belgian portal Skynet.be.

   Nice to read you again.

   VN | 1:36 pm

9. Good for you. I’m glad you won. I am amazed that you get that many readers a day. I get about 100 myself which is very good I thought. haha, shows what I know!

   Marie | 1:58 pm

10. I don’t know what the word for “twunt” is in french, but it brings to mind a question. When someone curses, they often say “pardon my french.” Do the french say “pardon my english” if they use foul language?

    homeimprovementninja | 2:14 pm

11. Hehe I found myself using this lovely new expletive quite often lately after reading it on your blog…
    (And it sounds so much better than “bastwat”!)

    Being a French woman living in the UK, I found myself mixing English and French when shouting abuses while driving: “You, connard! It was my road, bordel!” Guess it happens to you too sometimes.

    Can’t wait for the book!!!

    Em | 2:25 pm

12. An excellent read, and I like the political angle as well. The anti-immigrant climate that is being generated in France by a couple of the presidential candidates is going to have tragic consequences, if it hasn’t already done so.

    Ibrahim Sylla, a quiet 28 year old student from Guinea was brutally murdered and burnt in Marseille last Sunday. He was a Maths student at the University in Marseille and was murdered on his return to the campus after having finished work at a restaurant at 1 am (this job was helping him pay for his studies as well as support his family in Guinea). Police are baffled by the motivation for the killing, but many think it is racist.

    Petite, get your French nationality and be ready to vote next time.

    Sarah | 2:50 pm

13. good going, petite! and the perfect title.
    x

    rivergirlie | 3:39 pm

14. sorry - bad english- it should read “the police are baffled by the motive for the killing” ….

    Sarah | 3:54 pm

15. Hilarious!

    Sally Lomax | 4:09 pm

16. Excellent article! Et un titreur qui fait drôlement bien son boulot.

    Choubine | 4:28 pm

17. I continue to be impressed………..is there no end to your talents!?
    Lisa

    Lisa | 4:40 pm

18. Very nice petitie! I used to swear in Spanish but find that “Merde” rolls right off the tongue! I shall add twunt to the repertoire.

    Jules | 4:55 pm

19. I’m thrilled to have found your blog! I dream of living in Paris someday… sorry for what you are going through right now. Reminds me of Dooce.

    bellablue | 5:00 pm

20. just found a definition…. oh my…. probably not big in the US since twat is not a word we use… but the combination words to be found are really endless…

    nrg | 6:01 pm

21. Excellent article, and yet more good publicity, Petite. About your birth certificate, I am Canadian but my wife (now passed away, sadly) was English. I remember her saying that the original birth certificate (issued days after your birth) is considered very precious. If the French Administration refuses it, at least they aren’t going to lose it! BTW, I wonder if that recent thread will reach 300 comments - it would be nice, but I don’t want to cheat by commenting again.

    Pierre L | 6:17 pm

22. This place is the Cathedral of Twunthood!

    Trevor | 7:01 pm

23. Things could be worse…

    Dave of the Lake | 7:58 pm

24. A great article, Petite; you get so many hits a day. I was proud of the high subscriber rate of ‘Captain Picard’s Journal’, but you excel!

    Jean-Luc Picard | 8:15 pm

25. Hi,

    I’m new to blogging and I am absolutely amazed to find this blog. I read your story in normal media some time ago and it didn’t occur to me at all that this would be a blog (I’d never seen one at the time).

    Frankly, when I read the press I thought this would be one of those things that makes a nice story but the people involved end up getting screwed.

    I really hope you get something out of this and you deserve every last friend or support or penny that you get. I’m really impressed that you’re doing this blog while you have so much to deal with.

    JolietJake | 10:02 pm

26. Good luck. Hope they don’t appeal

    Jeremy Jacobs | 11:51 pm

27. Great article…and I love the title…combines one of my favorite words with one of my least favorite! And, in this case, very appropriately used! Congrats again!

    La Cubana Gringa | 1:49 am

28. Nice article! France needs more intelligent voters like you so I hope that you will obtain citizenship.

    Lost in France | 3:14 pm

29. #10: No, we don’t say “pardon my english”.

    There are a few french phrases with a direct english equivalent, though. Two examples are:

    “capote anglaise” = “french letter”
    “filer à l’anglaise” = “take a french leave”

    ontario frog | 3:21 pm

30. I was going to add this comment to the new statesman, but as it requires registration, I thought I would just add it here….

    I wonder how long it will take for the Académie française to decide to replace twunt with something more “french”

    grayarea | 6:43 pm

31. twunt? made me laugh. is that a hybrid?
    it must be awful being unfairly dismissed.
    what follows, strangely enough, is not fiction.
    i had to resign from my most recent job. i was being occupationally harassed by a dodgy old lady and her family, most of whom have serious health issues. i wouldn’t let them use me in a family photo, so they attempted to engineer a constructive dismissal. anyway, i resigned because of this, luckily avoiding the process of being prematurely aged by the stress of it all. retrospectively, it was implied that i was an incompetent employee with erratic time -keeping. ‘Hmmm’, i thought. the lesson you learn from this is thus: never trust an old lady offering you emperor’s new clolthes in return for your company. she may well want to consume you.

    has anyone seen my boat?

    paul | 5:32 pm

32. i must apologise to the pedant massive, most of whom adhere to prescriptive orthography. i wasn’t able to spell ‘clothes’ correctly. everybody was into creative spelling when i was at school. perhaps i’m still in recovery, cognitively speaking.

    coffee and crumpet anyone?

    paul | 5:43 pm

33. About 4000 readers a day! Wow! Good for you!

    Mais oui | 7:38 pm

34. Belles, bonnes et Joyeuses Pâques à PA, Tadpole, et tous les fidèles lecteurs(trices) de ce blog.

    Saluki | 8:50 pm

35. Good for you Petite!

    Best Wishes,

    GV

    Giving Voice | 9:24 pm

36. Hi, I really enjoyed reading through your blog.

    shelly | 3:39 am

37. Twunt has made it to my list of alternative rude words, sneaks in above Billy Connolly’s ‘Bassa’ and ‘Gettyfuh’.

    

    TT.

    TryingTimes | 4:07 pm

38. there is only one thing that is worse than being unfairly dismissed.
    hmmm, i’m sure i had a woman here somewhere? chewing gum anyone? perhaps i have misplaced her. oh silly me. that’s right, of course. the answer was obvious to begin with. they were frightened off. apparently, this happens when an epidemic of idiocy breaks out. thankfully i’m only 34.
    does anyone know what omniscience is?

    jog-your-memory | 6:18 pm

39. TWUNT… I love this word. What a scream! Quite a cunning stunt… ooops, sorry!

    paul | 7:48 pm

40. Kudos. ’nuff said. xx, c

    clarissa | 8:15 am

41. Twunt, the untranslatable word! How about “encufoiré”? It’s a nice and evocative blend of “enculé” and “enfoiré”…

    Ariel | 4:52 pm

42. There is just no pity here for the ignorant colonials. . . I *want* to use this new swearword, but don’t have any idea what it means. Unless it means what a nice american girl doesn’t every say. Oh. Wait.

    Ha ha ha ha ha.

    I *think*.

    Susan | 3:13 am

43. It’s twat & cunt right…? Just to get it right-lol

    Karen | 5:59 pm

44. oh crikey, there was me thinking it was a contraction of “twit” and “runt”.

    Bugger.

    petite | 7:53 pm

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