{"id":1653,"date":"2010-09-29T22:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T22:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2017-10-18T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:48:14","slug":"mme-jesaistout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/mme-jesaistout\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame JE-SAIS-TOUT (and more of the ABC of French Slang!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today in our ABCs of French slang, we’re on\u00a0la lettre<\/em> ‘J.<\/strong>‘<\/em><\/p>\n

“J comme…” <\/em>(“J as in…”)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

* Je-m’en-foutisme:<\/em>
\nIn his book “The Devil in France – My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940<\/a>” <\/strong>(during the Nazi invasion of France, that is), le dramaturge <\/em>(playwright) Lion Feuchtwanger<\/strong> defines Je-m’en-foutisme<\/em> as “an attitude toward life that may be somewhat inadequately translated as ‘I-don’t-give-a-damnism.'” He\u00a0further identifies with with “the Devil of Unthoughtfulness, of Sloth in good-will, of Convention, of Routine, the very Devil to whom the French have given the motto, “je m’en fous”—“I don’t give a damn<\/strong>.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To adopt a “je-m’en-foutiste<\/em>” behavior, so to speak,\u00a0is to be a “je-m’en-foutiste<\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

* Je-Sais-Tout:<\/strong>
\n<\/span>To be un monsieur je-sais-tout<\/strong> <\/em>or a madame je-sais-tout<\/strong> <\/em>is to be a “know-it-all.” You can also say “un gros malin<\/strong>“<\/em>, which\u00a0has the sense of a\u00a0“smart alec.”<\/p>\n

* Jetons:
\n<\/span>It usually comes in the expression “foutre les jetons<\/em>“, which means “to give the freaks”, “to give the chills”, or “to give the jitters” to someone.
\nIn another expression, namely “faux jeton”<\/em>, if you remember from the letter ‘F’ of the ABC<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, we said that it literally means a “fake token”, and standing for a hypocritical or a disingenious person, a “fake”, or a “phoney.”<\/p>\n

Pour rappel <\/em>(as a reminder),\u00a0if you have missed them,\u00a0here are les liens <\/em>(the links) to the previous posts of\u00a0le<\/em> B.A.-BA de l’argot <\/em>(the ABC of French Slang), each corresponding to a letter of the alphabet.<\/p>\n

* <\/em>B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot: \u2018A\u2019 (the ABC of French Slang: \u2018A\u2019)<\/em><\/a>
\n* <\/em>B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot: \u2018B\u2019 (the ABC of French Slang: \u2018B\u2019)<\/em><\/a>
\n* <\/em>B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot: \u2018B\u2019 [Cont.] (the ABC of French Slang: \u2018B\u2019 [Cont.])<\/em><\/a>
\n* <\/em>\u201cC comme\u2026\u201d B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot (the ABC of French Slang: \u2018C\u2019)<\/em><\/a>
\n* <\/em>\u201cC comme\u2026(\u00c7a Continue!)\u201d B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot (the ABC of French Slang: \u2018C\u2019 [cont.])<\/em><\/a>
\n* <\/em>\u201cD comme\u2026\u201d B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot (the ABC of French Slang: \u2018D\u2019)<\/em><\/a>
\n* <\/em>\u201cE comme\u2026\u201d B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot (the ABC of French Slang: \u2018E\u2019)<\/em><\/a>
\n* <\/em>\u201cF comme\u2026\u201d B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot: \u2018F\u2019\u00a0[1] (the ABC of French Slang: \u2018F\u2019 [1])<\/em><\/a>
\n<\/em>* \u201cF comme\u2026\u201d B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot: \u2018F\u2019 [2] (the ABC of French Slang: \u2018F\u2019 [2])<\/em><\/a>
\n* <\/em>More French Slang! B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot: \u201cLettre G\u201d (1\u00e8re partie)<\/em><\/a>
\n* More French SLANG! B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot: \u201cLettre G\u201d (2\u00e8me partie)\u2014and ATTENTION aux MEUPORGs!<\/a>
\n<\/em>* \u201cGRATOS!\u201d and other \u2018G\u2019 French Slang words (3\u00e8me partie)<\/em><\/a>
\n* \u2018I\u2019 comme \u201cIllico Presto!\u201d\u2014and more from le B.A.-BA de l\u2019Argot (The ABC of French Slang)<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Today in our ABCs of French slang, we’re on\u00a0la lettre ‘J.‘ “J comme…” (“J as in…”) * Je-m’en-foutisme: In his book “The Devil in France – My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940” (during the Nazi invasion of France, that is), le dramaturge (playwright) Lion Feuchtwanger defines Je-m’en-foutisme as “an attitude toward life…<\/p>\n

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