Explain yourself

By Anonymous - This FML is from back in 2011 but it's good stuff - France

Today, I received a text message from my wife, who had gone out for the evening with some girlfriends, saying, "I have to take a friend home, she's drunk! I'll be staying at his place. Call you in the morning." Umm… His? FML
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Same thing different taste

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I'm sure someone's said this before, but /translated from french/. His/her is a lot closer in French, afaik, though I don't actually know the language.

you need to divorce her right now man cheating is by far the ultimate betrayal. she is your wife and she is spending the night at some other guys house? clearly she has lost her respect for you. as a man move on with your life.

whoever translated this doesn't understand french grammar. the gender of progressive pronouns is determined by the gender of the noun being described (french nouns possess a gender, either masculine or feminine, a concept that doesn't exist in english grammar. for example, un ordinateur, a computer (masculine) or une voiture, a car (feminine)) it is impossible to determine the gender of the person possessing the object by possessive pronouns alone.

Whoever translated this DOES have a sense of French grammar actually. The original VDM is somewhat different; it's translated in a way that sounds better in English but still captures the lapsus of OP's wife.

Generally speaking, you are right that in French it is not possible to tell from a possessive whether the owner of an object is male or female (eg "son ordinateur" can mean both "his computer" and "her computer"). However, in this context I am guessing the original French did make it clear since "at his place" translates as "chez lui", whereas "at her place" would be "chez elle" - the structure in French is different to that in English and a possessive is not used.

JennaMarie420 2

uhh what? who really cares

MeeshaMeeshaPup 8

she probably has a gay friend. that or ur screwed :)

JennaMarie420 2

maybe she was taking her home to her boyfriends house but forgot to mention it

oh it's no typo she is taking her girlfriend back but then is going over to the dudes house