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under the tooth
I found this ad on Youtube and wanted to share it. It’s like spoken word set to train track beat talking about the French. An interesting take as a learner looking to dive into the culture.
This one has got me stumped. Even with Googling (and I’m generally a pretty good sleuth), I’m not seeing some of these. Cicada on the tongue? How would you translate that? What does that mean?
My hunch is that this is referring to 6 diferent areas of France, implying the 6 corners of France. EG, Provence loves cicadas. La choucroute is the Alsatian dish. Tripe is a favorite in …. somewhere? Normandy? The ocean and le maroilles cheese for two more, one Normandy one the Atlantic coast. I’m not sure about the fingernails… but this is just my hunch. French tips aren’t called that in France, after all. That’s not really 6 corners, two from Normandy, one from the Atlantic, one Provence, one Alsace… kind of 6 corners…
I had to grab “sous la dent” as it is wild. How would you translate it? “In our teeth?” “in our mouth” “under our teeth?”. I kind of like “in our teeth”, but didn’t translate it that way.
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Humaniste jusqu’au bout des ongles, humain jusqu’au fond des tripes. Des cigales sur la langue, de l’océan sur les lèvres, du maroilles dans la bouche de la choucroute sous la dent.
Humanist to the end of his fingernails, human to the bottom of his guts. Cicadas on the tongue, ocean on the lips, maroilles in the mouth and choucroute under the tooth.
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