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Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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I'm not even half through this article but I felt an urge to say this: The automatic french-english translation is so good, I didn't even notice it at all. Good work, google!

Edit: now that I'm aware that the text I'm reading is a translation, I see the errors. I guess my brain just filtered it out. Still awesome though!

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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    > A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions
Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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> A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

From google:

engueuler. (transitive, informal) to give (someone) a roasting, to tell someone off. (reflexive, informal) to argue, to have a row.

So I think the officer just gave her a telling off.

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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post #4

> A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

A police officer berates a woman whose 3 y.o kid runs around

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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post #4

> A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

"engueuler" is berating, not beating.

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Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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post #4

> A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

Engueuler is yelling at someone, not beating. This woman got scolded because of a hyperactive kid, from your sentence.

Re: How a French scholar was treated at US airport

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> A police officer beats a woman whose three-year-old runs in all directions Is anyone able to give a better translation of this bit? Looks like the original sentence was "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens"

A police officer screams at a lady whose three year old child is running all over the place.
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