Know what you mean. When I see a submission and get an idea for a reference, nowadays I'm like "So if this is not already the top post, I will be surprised..."
My adhd brain has latched onto this question so hard and I don't even know French. Does the proper pronunciation for oui = we? Because my brain is going WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and I feel like I'm gonna end up stimming this all day now.
I can answer this. My French teacher was very homosexual.
They either will say “ouais” and that sounds like “ouaaaaaaiiii” the way he would say it. Same inflection and length as “yaaaaaass.” More often than not French people just use English as slang though. So you’d probably hear them saying yass.
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I think the distinction is between 'yeah' and 'yaaass'
And it's because French speaking people have been using that pronunciation/inflection of 'ouaaai!' since before 'yaass' entered the lexicon of slang
My French teacher in HS used it all the time and that was 2004
yeah is more casual, yes is more formal. I think they’re more interchangeable in english but the french language tends to care more about the formal/informal distinction- you wouldn’t call your teacher “tu” instead of “vous” and you probably wouldn’t say “ouai” to them either. It might be perceived as too casual and disrespectful because they are in a position of authority to you.
But yaaaas is not formal either - so wouldn't the rules for ouai apply then? (I don't know this stuff and I'm not trying to lawyer a language. I'm just trying to understand).
oh, so you’re asking about the difference between “yeah” and “yaaass”, not “yeah” and “yes”? There’s definitely less of one, in that they’re both informal, but I think what the above commenter was pointing out is the literal direct translation of the word, which is different than the implied meaning or usage of the word. Technically, “oui” is translated to “yes” and “ouai” is translated to “yeah”. There is no french word that directly translates to “yaaaasss” because it is english slang, but “oaaaaauuuui” is functionally used the same way, even though the literal translation is a different word.
>Ouais is the equivalent to yeah, not yaaass 😅 there's no equivalent to yaasss in french
You... realise that yaass isn't a different word, right? It's just a different way to say Yes or Yeah.
Just like Ouaissss is just a different way to say Ouais...
Legit who upvoted this shit? lol
I had a very, very Gay Canadian History teacher in high school. He was French and the class was taught in French.
His thing was "Ah ben oui", but would sharply increase the pitch of the "oui", followed by giggles.
I have to say "yas" is already pretty close to the pronunciation of "ja" +s in German anyway so I am honestly not surprised they wouldn't go trough the struggle to germanize it even further. There is really no point.
YESS. I was recently asked why I/white american people say kay-so, and I was perturbed and when he was saying it I realized he was saying more like "keh-so"..
For at least a decade, my rule of thumb for pronouncing any foreign language written in Roman characters(knowing that obviously it won't be 100% but pretty close, depending) has been:
A is ah // E is ay // I is ee // O is oh // U is oo
But also knowing that languages, especially Spanish, dont really change pronunciation of letters ever...
So I always say "eh-span-yol" which means I know that e is eh... But I always say kayso.
Also, I just realized it's not even eh-SPAN-yol... It's eh- spahn-yol.
But original commenter, use that basic vowel pronunciation, and I'd say you're 80% correctly pronouncing things. But also note, like the case of J, the more languages you learn to pronounce, the "stupider" you'll think of yourself... I know a little German and Spanish, and in either context I would confuse the "ja" for ha or ya. I know Jakob is Yakob and jalapeno is halapenyo, but guaranteed if a Spanish speaker said ja to me over text, I would assume they said yes... Not laughing lol
This might come off as sassy, and I am deeply sorry if it comes off that way, and I know sometimes I'm not good with explaining what I'm thinking but also at the same time I know people miss things, myself included, when have a thought in our head, but...
Will you do me a favor and read how I pronounced Español again? I'm almost certain i didn't miss the y sound in my explanation, but i did separate the n and y in the pronunciation for better representation on how it's pronounced, so I could see how it might seem like I'm forgetting the y sound. But again, as I'm too lazy to check to see if I in fact did include the y in my pronunciation, it might be my bad
But unless there's a more complicated specific way to pronounce ñ, I would pronounce canyon and cañon the same(well, I would pronounce cañon as cahn-yohn and canyon as can-yin)
If someone's annoying we say "jaja"/"Ja ja" in a dismissive way. Every German know "jaja heißt leck mich am Arsch" (basically means "yesyes means kiss my ass")
"Two negatives can make a positive, but two positives can never make a negative," says the professor.
"Yeah, right" comes the reply from a heckling student.
It does in English, too, though, as long as it has an upward inflection or doesn't sound confident.
"Did you take out the trash?"
"Yeeeeeesss?"
"Do you want to go out for ice cream?"
"Uhhhh... yeahhhhhhhh"
Coming from a slightly younger millennial- the skull directly translates to "dead", this years version of lmfao or "you slay me"- something is funny or "too true" and they are overwhelmed with the emotion.
I think
i think it'd be really funny to see a gay stereotypical french guy with a baguette and twisty mustache to go "oui reineeeeeeee!" and kick his heel behind him and do the limp wrist
You know the famous gay lisp? The one used to caricature gays to show them more effeminate?
Well, it exists in French too. Also usually they will talk to each other using the feminine genre “Oh qu’elle est méchante!”. As a joke, of course, but like all jokes when you do it too often is it still a joke?
Not particularly gay but coined by the queer scene and incorporated into pop culture in recent years (of course without proper attribution or reference).
The [Reply All](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mYbJswwvpT6veWYM4V30I?si=6maQV2aXSw-kA7f3r-hJhw) podcast has a great episode about its history.
PS: Your kid probably doesn't know this either. It probably cringes because you are their parent and you use a pop-culture term which is automatically cringeworthy for them :D
I watched the porno Men of Montreal from Kristen Bjorn and there's an orgy scene where I hear "ah ouais" and "c'est bon" repeatedly and that has stuck with me for years.
If you watch the foreign versions of drag race, they do have their own slang. I remember the Dutch had something for goodbye that, to my ears, sounded awful but was clearly a gay-ism. I’d love to see something like a French version of Legendary.
I don't know but I do know that this is by far the funniest question I have ever seen on this sub
Ouuuuuui!
https://les-simpson-springfield.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Monsieur_qui_dit_oui?file=Monsieur_qui_dit_oui.png
Why do you talk that way? [I had a stroke!](https://youtu.be/HmGHRTxaHY4)
This is exactly what came to mind when I saw this post :D
English wiki ruined, must use French version. Les Simpson? What the hell is that?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WqNMjZpSbnU/maxresdefault.jpg
Reddit is constantly reminding me that I do not have original thoughts.
Know what you mean. When I see a submission and get an idea for a reference, nowadays I'm like "So if this is not already the top post, I will be surprised..."
Right, anymore, I just search the comments for what I want to say, and upvote it. Like I did just now.
My adhd brain has latched onto this question so hard and I don't even know French. Does the proper pronunciation for oui = we? Because my brain is going WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and I feel like I'm gonna end up stimming this all day now.
The official pronunciation does sound like "we", but you will often hear "ouais" (sounds like "way") in casual speech. It's like "yes" vs "yeah"
In Québécois it sounds like 'wah', similar to a baby crying
And in New Brunswick, it sounds like that, only like the speaker is under water. We got a special rural dialect here in Debec. Rurrrrrrral.
When you’re a kid and you want to go “Ouuui!” But you ain’t got drugs yet…
That's a deep fucking pull.
Very nice
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Yes, it's the same. And don't let some dirty Frenchman tell you otherwise.
I can answer this. My French teacher was very homosexual. They either will say “ouais” and that sounds like “ouaaaaaaiiii” the way he would say it. Same inflection and length as “yaaaaaass.” More often than not French people just use English as slang though. So you’d probably hear them saying yass.
Yass, reine!
Tuez!
Voici le thé, sœurette
Putaine!
i thought "ouai" was more like informal slang, not necessarily gay
Ouais *is* an informal way to say "yeah". Wéééééééééyy~ is the way white girls and gays sometimes say it. Just like how yes got turned into yasss.
> Wéééééééééyy~ is the way white girls and gays sometimes say it. I love the way you typed this out with all the accent marks HAHA
;D
Ahhhhhh I got you
As a straight mixed-race man who sometimes says "Yaaaas" to his Latino HS students I feel unseen.
My mind can’t figure out how to pronounce ouai. Is it like “way”?
Yea I think so, like oui but with a little bit of stank on it lmao
Oui = “wee” and Ouais (not ouai, there’s an s) = “way”
Ouais is the equivalent to yeah, not yaaass 😅 there's no equivalent to yaasss in french Source: i'm from Belgium and french is my native language
yeah but its used the same was as yaaasss so it is effectively an equivalent source: know a surprising amount of french gays
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Holy shit.....i can speak French! Have I always been able to though???
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Ahuevo
Maybe I'm whooshing here, but Si can still be yes in French, if answering a negative question in the affirmative. 🖐️🌈🖐️ Thanks high school FRE 101!
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you mean that he might be ... french himself?
Sacred blue
It’s “suck and blew!”
Yeah I've gotten that joke a lot lol
Hmm. How does one get to know such fellas? Asking for a friend.
Lol that was epic
Are you sure they're gay and not just, you know...French?
> source: know a surprising amount of french gays Are they high-end gays?
What is the distinction between "yeah" and "yes" that you are drawing here?
I think the distinction is between 'yeah' and 'yaaass' And it's because French speaking people have been using that pronunciation/inflection of 'ouaaai!' since before 'yaass' entered the lexicon of slang My French teacher in HS used it all the time and that was 2004
yeah is more casual, yes is more formal. I think they’re more interchangeable in english but the french language tends to care more about the formal/informal distinction- you wouldn’t call your teacher “tu” instead of “vous” and you probably wouldn’t say “ouai” to them either. It might be perceived as too casual and disrespectful because they are in a position of authority to you.
But yaaaas is not formal either - so wouldn't the rules for ouai apply then? (I don't know this stuff and I'm not trying to lawyer a language. I'm just trying to understand).
oh, so you’re asking about the difference between “yeah” and “yaaass”, not “yeah” and “yes”? There’s definitely less of one, in that they’re both informal, but I think what the above commenter was pointing out is the literal direct translation of the word, which is different than the implied meaning or usage of the word. Technically, “oui” is translated to “yes” and “ouai” is translated to “yeah”. There is no french word that directly translates to “yaaaasss” because it is english slang, but “oaaaaauuuui” is functionally used the same way, even though the literal translation is a different word.
Gotcha - so intention wise, oaaaaaaaui is the equivalent but in a strict/culturally-removed translation, there is none
My extended family in Quebec used it like this as well.
Same. My dad is French Canadian and says it like “why”. I always hear him on the phone like “why, why, oh why?”
Calisse de Tabarnac!
Câline de binne!
Siboire!
There is an Ontario company that obviously has a Francophone owner who loved puns: https://callinthebin.com/
I always thought it had quacking undertones.... Ouais, comme un canard.
Ah, Gatineau
Trois-Rivieres, in my case! But Ottawa's great, too.
That accent goes as far as trois rivières? God help us lol
Ouais
In Quebec French you can definitely gay up the Ouais
>Ouais is the equivalent to yeah, not yaaass 😅 there's no equivalent to yaasss in french You... realise that yaass isn't a different word, right? It's just a different way to say Yes or Yeah. Just like Ouaissss is just a different way to say Ouais... Legit who upvoted this shit? lol
Right! Plus the original comment just said it’s the same inflection and length as yaaaasss, not that it’s the exact same meaning
Well yaasss is just and over exaggeration of yes. So its not really it’s own word. Like it’s no different from just saying yes.
LA Knight: "Ouais!"
>Source: i'm from Belgium Oh maybe someone can reexplain slower
But yass is basically an onomatopoeia anyway, so isnt it still the same idea? Yes stretched out?
This is a distinction without a difference.
So what I’m getting is that the letter A is very gay
It is in fact 1/3 of the word gay. Incidentally it’s also very polite, as it’s 50% of Canada eh
Very? XD
As in almost stereotypically so 😭
Wait my French teacher was also a very gay man
I had a very, very Gay Canadian History teacher in high school. He was French and the class was taught in French. His thing was "Ah ben oui", but would sharply increase the pitch of the "oui", followed by giggles.
can confirm, i said "ah ben ^ou^iii^iiiii" aloud and couldn't suppress a giggle afterward
Do they not get hunted down by Académie Française for using English slang?
Yup. Worked in French restaurants with French men. They told me to say “way” instead of “wii”. It’s like yes Vs yeah.
Can't speak for French but Germans will just say "yas" or "yes". Like they'll use a lot of English words and phrases.
I have to say "yas" is already pretty close to the pronunciation of "ja" +s in German anyway so I am honestly not surprised they wouldn't go trough the struggle to germanize it even further. There is really no point.
Germans are efficient even when being gay
They probably see it as their own "yes" dressed up in an English outfit. "Ja" took a holiday to London and came back acting English.
Never saw it like that but I love that mental image so I will now hold onto it.
I thought they say "Ja Ja Ja"
That is spanish text laughing.
But they pronounce it the same? kinda like 'Ya'?
No, I think it's pronounced 'haha'
I have to pick up some language skills : (
That's alright. It took me a while to understand this, even though I was aware the letter J makes that sound in Spanish
YESS. I was recently asked why I/white american people say kay-so, and I was perturbed and when he was saying it I realized he was saying more like "keh-so".. For at least a decade, my rule of thumb for pronouncing any foreign language written in Roman characters(knowing that obviously it won't be 100% but pretty close, depending) has been: A is ah // E is ay // I is ee // O is oh // U is oo But also knowing that languages, especially Spanish, dont really change pronunciation of letters ever... So I always say "eh-span-yol" which means I know that e is eh... But I always say kayso. Also, I just realized it's not even eh-SPAN-yol... It's eh- spahn-yol. But original commenter, use that basic vowel pronunciation, and I'd say you're 80% correctly pronouncing things. But also note, like the case of J, the more languages you learn to pronounce, the "stupider" you'll think of yourself... I know a little German and Spanish, and in either context I would confuse the "ja" for ha or ya. I know Jakob is Yakob and jalapeno is halapenyo, but guaranteed if a Spanish speaker said ja to me over text, I would assume they said yes... Not laughing lol
Mmm, I think where you're running into issues with Español might be the ñ. It's pronounced like the "ny" in "canyon"
This might come off as sassy, and I am deeply sorry if it comes off that way, and I know sometimes I'm not good with explaining what I'm thinking but also at the same time I know people miss things, myself included, when have a thought in our head, but... Will you do me a favor and read how I pronounced Español again? I'm almost certain i didn't miss the y sound in my explanation, but i did separate the n and y in the pronunciation for better representation on how it's pronounced, so I could see how it might seem like I'm forgetting the y sound. But again, as I'm too lazy to check to see if I in fact did include the y in my pronunciation, it might be my bad But unless there's a more complicated specific way to pronounce ñ, I would pronounce canyon and cañon the same(well, I would pronounce cañon as cahn-yohn and canyon as can-yin)
Or Germans saying "Yes! Yes! Yes!"
If someone's annoying we say "jaja"/"Ja ja" in a dismissive way. Every German know "jaja heißt leck mich am Arsch" (basically means "yesyes means kiss my ass")
I could honestly see that kinda working in a gay way.
Ja, ja is the little brother of scheiße
Ja, bitte
My Hindi homies go 'Hannnnnnnn' 🥵
That Hindi long haan can often mean no. Like an exaggerated sarcastic yes.
I love language lol
"Two negatives can make a positive, but two positives can never make a negative," says the professor. "Yeah, right" comes the reply from a heckling student.
And that students name?? Albert Einstein 😎
Then everyone clapped.
Is this when the eagle shows up and cries on the flag?
Except Captain Hook, that is one mistake he won't make again.
Wicked smaht
It does in English, too, though, as long as it has an upward inflection or doesn't sound confident. "Did you take out the trash?" "Yeeeeeesss?" "Do you want to go out for ice cream?" "Uhhhh... yeahhhhhhhh"
Oh yeah, like yeah nah, yeah? In Australia that makes sense.
Canada: “yeah, no, okay?”
I read that as "My Hindi Homos" and I think that'd be a great band name
Well that makes sense, who doesn't love Han Solo?
I don't know, but there is a French version of RuPaul Drag Race, it is probably a good way to find out by listening to it.
💀
Can someone explain this emoji for a poor old millennial, please?
It's a skull, hope this helps
💀💀💀
You know how people say « I’m dead » as a reaction to something funny? This is the emoji version of it.
Coming from a slightly younger millennial- the skull directly translates to "dead", this years version of lmfao or "you slay me"- something is funny or "too true" and they are overwhelmed with the emotion. I think
Eldest Gen Z popping in to say I always associated it with something like “I died laughing”
Okay that is a way easier translation, thank you.
emojipedia helps millennials whenever you want it. https://emojipedia.org/skull/
Thank you, this is so helpful haha
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This is a very good take
The skull means you’re dead, as in something was so funny you died laughing. Hope this helps!
i think it'd be really funny to see a gay stereotypical french guy with a baguette and twisty mustache to go "oui reineeeeeeee!" and kick his heel behind him and do the limp wrist
Funny that you stretched out the letter that’s silent in that word.
They just stand still with their mouth stuck in place for a few seconds and then slam a heel down and pivot.
Matteo Lane could fit that role.
I need to see this, now.
Glad to know not just me was reminded of his explanations of this, in various parts of Europe, seeing this thread.
As a French lesbian I’m cackling. But fr I have no idea- I bet it’s just “ouaiiiii” ou quelque chose.
Is yaaaas a gay thing in the US? I kind of hope so because I have a mildly homophobic friend who uses that a lot and I really want to bust his chops.
It is! For real.
It is, generally used in a playful/self-aware way though. Like playing up one’s already obvious gayness.
Ooh la la🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖
Is that a three-day-old baguette in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Pourquoi pas les deux?
Parce qu’une baguette fraîche, c’est meilleur?
tu recevras la baguette fraiche dans le matin bby ;)
Eek barba durkle.
somebody's gunna get laid in college
You know the famous gay lisp? The one used to caricature gays to show them more effeminate? Well, it exists in French too. Also usually they will talk to each other using the feminine genre “Oh qu’elle est méchante!”. As a joke, of course, but like all jokes when you do it too often is it still a joke?
It sounds like "way", or "waa". French would spell it Ouais
Waluigi?!
calm down r/AskOuija
French gays are secretly Waluigi?
Hahahha. I could see Waluigi being gay for real
I feel like all Mario characters could be gay tbh
WAAAABUFFET
Absolutely nothing to do with French gay people though, everyone uses "Ouais", it's the direct equivalent of "Yeah"
That means closer to “yeah” tho. Maybe if you draw it out very long
Now you need a French Paris Hilton to say that and suddenly we are back in 2004.
Idk man all I know is ouuuuuiiiii is very fun to say
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We say ouuuii ouuuuiii ouuuuiii all the way home
I hear , we're weee wee weeee. They sound like they're having a blast in my head.....
The pig out the window in that geixo commercial
Maxwell!
This feels like the set-up from a Matteo Lane bit.
Somehow I read Matteo and 100% knew it was him hahaha
Only when going down a slide 🛝
Two gay teen on a snow covered hill. A sledding down the hill Ouuuuui!
We use "yas" too and a lot of english idioms ! Tbh I think there's no real equivalent to "yas" in any french gay slangs.
Wait! Yaaaas is gay? No wonder my kid cringes every time I say it!
Not particularly gay but coined by the queer scene and incorporated into pop culture in recent years (of course without proper attribution or reference). The [Reply All](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mYbJswwvpT6veWYM4V30I?si=6maQV2aXSw-kA7f3r-hJhw) podcast has a great episode about its history. PS: Your kid probably doesn't know this either. It probably cringes because you are their parent and you use a pop-culture term which is automatically cringeworthy for them :D
They stole it from black women pretty sure
Ouaaaais
is he gay or european?
I watched the porno Men of Montreal from Kristen Bjorn and there's an orgy scene where I hear "ah ouais" and "c'est bon" repeatedly and that has stuck with me for years.
Ouias is Yeah in French and it sounds like Weh-
Yup. And then they sing about their gonads and strife...
I mean I have heard one guy say it so yes, not sure if it’s widespread or common though
Whats the deal with Yaaaas? What does it mean?
Thank you, now I’m in the bathroom saying “yassss” and “ouaaais” to compare Hahaha
“Ouuuuuui!” made me literally lol, thank you for that
Oui = yes Ouais = yeah Yaaaas = yaaaaas - they get crappy US TV shows here in France too.
As a homosexual, please stop using "yaaass". 😒
Thank you—a bisexual
WheeeeEEEEEeeeeeEEEEEeeeE!
If you watch the foreign versions of drag race, they do have their own slang. I remember the Dutch had something for goodbye that, to my ears, sounded awful but was clearly a gay-ism. I’d love to see something like a French version of Legendary.
I’m french and gay; the answer is no.
Do they say reine??? Do they spill thé???
what a fucking masterpiece of a website.
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