Gay in french language
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Jabote said:
No, no tim, I did not represent that it was colloquial, I was just saying that if it is used in France now (as opposed to 10 years ago when I had never heard it used there yet), it is not the formal term, the formal phrase (let's call it "official" term) is homosexuel, that's all ! I perceive it is not colloquial in English but it is not the "official" term either, that's what I meant, sorry if I was not unmistakable !
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Ahh, ok. Yes "official" legal title is better, I believe, in this context because we are talking about language and "formal" is the normal term used to mean "high" register (eg the opposite of colloquial).
I suppose, though, that what I am suggesting is that "gay" is slowly becoming the "official" term. It's not there yet, but it really is quite unusual to hear "homosexual". In evidence the only time you do really hear it is either in medical terms or, I consider, when vicars and the like discuss it in terms of religion.
How do you utter "Gay" in your language?
How execute you say "Gay & Lesbian" in your language?
I want to know inoffensive and friendly terms of referring "Homosexual"!!
In English: lgbtq+, queer
In German: schwul (only for male homosexuals), lesbisch (female h.), vom anderen Ufer, andersrum, linksgestrickt
omosessuale, gay (m), lesbica (f)
<<omosessuale, gay (m), lesbica (f) >>
which language is this please?
Spanish: parchita, pargo, pato. It depends what state in SouthAmerica you are. These words belong to slang in Venezuela.
I think that in Spanish we may not hold an exact equal. Obviously, as Guest above pointed out, there are dozens of words to call a queer person. But in essence, the synonyms "gay" is a neutral word, it has no negative connotations (when used in the instinct "homosexual", not in the sense "lame"). In Spanish, "homosexual" is a tad too technical, and the others are mostly offensive (in the River Plate: maricón, trolo, puto, etc.) a gloomy fact, which may or may not reflect something about our societies. The word "gay" has then been borrowed
Pédale
In France, the word pédé comes from pederast and from pédé comes pédale, wich translation into the English language is pedal, which is also part of the bike. As in other pedophile countries, those that link male homosexuality with pedophilia in their most common insults, in France they call pedophiles to gay people. His intention is pejorative. Scan our post for the Gay Slang Collection to learn more about this word.
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See: Pédale. Gay Dictionary (France).
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pédé / PD / pédéraste
This was exactly what occurred to me on reading through this thread. A translation is difficult - and also depends on how much we would be trying to respect the language and identity of the times. I suspect, although do not understand, that both "homosexuel" and "pédéraste" would, at the moment the quote is from, have evoked the same impact on French ears as "homosexual" and "pederast" would on English ones whatever that impression might have been - and so I'd probably translate it word for word! (It's also a nice get-out, no?). As a gloss I think very much like Egueule is suggesting and I like an earlier suggestion - "I'm not lesbian (with that defining the whole life-style, indeed - was he married?), I just bugger boys" (but I wouldn't understand by that prepubescent boys, although young, yes).egueule said:
I would say that Camille Saint-Saëns meant that he would not have a love relationship with any man his own age, or older than himself, only with younger males, like many Greeks did in the times of Socrates.
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