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Cuchulainn · January 22nd, 2019, 9:40 pm

Shows how good my French is.

ppauper · January 23rd, 2019, 6:25 am

Shows how good my French is.

it's a loan-word from arabic and has been popularized by hip-hop. Few if any in Europe would have given it that meaning at the time the song was released

ppauper · January 23rd, 2019, 7:20 am

NZ and UK sign trade continuity agreement as Jacinda Ardern and Theresa May meet in London

ISayMoo · January 23rd, 2019, 8:37 am

What an irony. The UK pushed NZ economy into recession when it joined the EC in the 1970s, by being forced by the EC rules to ditch its existing trade agreement with NZ. Now NZ is coming to UK's rescue.

FaridMoussaoui · January 23rd, 2019, 9:48 am

There is a large extrapolation about the verb "niquer" in french. It is a shotname of "forniquer" and it exists in french dictionary since 1890.

The song "Dominique" was on top of charts on non french-speaking countries. The singer didn't receive any royalties from the hit.
She committed suicide partly because of her money problems.

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ppauper · January 23rd, 2019, 10:00 am

The "Trésor de la Langue Française" says it originated in military slang in the 1890s, especially soldiers stationed in Algeria, which was then French
It's from the Arabic root n-i-k "to have sex; to penetrate"; compare ناك (nāk)

FaridMoussaoui · January 23rd, 2019, 10:01 am

It wasn't french. It was under french occupation.

FaridMoussaoui · January 23rd, 2019, 10:05 am

Well, "nique" is a slang in North Africa. The term for "fuck" in arabic is "ينكح"

Cuchulainn · January 23rd, 2019, 10:36 am

There is a large extrapolation about the verb "niquer" in french. It is a shotname of "forniquer" and it exists in french dictionary since 1890.

The song "Dominique" was on top of charts on non french-speaking countries. The singer didn't receive any royalties from the hit.
She committed suicide partly because of her money problems.

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Dutch, actually.

FaridMoussaoui · January 23rd, 2019, 10:56 am

You are right. The first time I saw this ads was around 1996-1998 in a TV broadcast called "culture pub".

Cuchulainn · January 23rd, 2019, 11:13 am

Education is big over here, e.g. philosophy

ISayMoo · January 23rd, 2019, 12:06 pm

It wasn't french. It was under french occupation.

Yes and no. The country as a whole was under French occupation. But the French settlers created their own communities and commerce which didn't exist before. So there was something you could call "French Algeria", which couldn't co-exist with "Algerian Algeria", and had to be terminated.

katastrofa · January 23rd, 2019, 12:18 pm

Well, "nique" is a slang in North Africa. The term for "fuck" in arabic is "ينكح"

Without j at the beginning, I think - what you wrote means "knees" according to Google Translate...
BTW, GT was attacked by Russian trolls who replaced "thanks" in Ukrainian (Дякую) with Muskovite Спасибо!

ppauper · January 23rd, 2019, 12:25 pm

I was using "french" in the sense of "belonging to france."
French Algeria
Your argument seems to be, "it didn't belong to france it belonged to france."
At one point, algeria was actually part of france, in the sense that it was an overseas department, although obviously not part of metropolitan france

katastrofa · January 23rd, 2019, 12:31 pm

Wait! Algeria doesn't belong to France?

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