dieu

Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère.

Il s’est planqué Dieu sait où, et c’est pas facile, souvent, d’arriver jusqu’à lui.

Oh mon dieu, since when did Spanish make anything other than vinegar.

Ah, that's why Paix Dieu is such good beer.

So the French subsidiary buys very expensive inputs from the Luxembourg subsidiary, meaning the French subsidiary doesn't show a profit, mon dieu how could that have happened, such a shame!

You got me there, but I love Dieu De Ciel, and the number of microbrews coming up every few months in Toronto and other major cities is amazing.

> it became common among the british aspirational middle-class in the 70s to adopt french words in an attempt to appear cultured Mon dieu Rodney!

There are many decisions young parents make that from the remove of a keyboard in a happily single or child-free relationship seem irrational or (mon dieu!) _inefficient_, but there is a emotional depth to these choices that are _very_ meaningful to the people involved.

In that sense I think con is an insult, not taboo, because I've heard people say punaise (for putain ) and nom de bleu (for nom de dieu ) but I can't recall ever having heard a similar substitutions for con.

This is a shortening of of "a Dieu vous comant" ("I commend you to God").

Millions of Americans reside in "trailer parks" at a standard of living that is the envy of much of the world, and surely orders of magnitude better than the situation in Cite de Dieu.

No, "ordinateur" was a marketing term created for IBM that meant to evoke godliness, from the somewhat archaic phrase, "Dieu qui met de l'ordre dans le monde", God who sets the world in order.

Nation states are a very recent development indeed - they've only really existed (as firm concepts) for about 400 years, and Hobbes essentially set out the system of the world we operate to today in Leviathan - prior to that, state power was vested in individuals and families, and was drawn from the divine (think "dieu et mon droit" or "l'etat, c'est moi").

>Nice: 5h30 by train, 5h by car Closer to 4h30 by car, although the train does drop you off directly in Part-Dieu.

See also: Part-Dieu, Tour Bretagne, Pleyel.

(although one or two of them use punaise to mince, nom de Dieu!