some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to World News@lemmy.world · 4 months agoIn world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercuryarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square176fedilinkarrow-up1829arrow-down114
arrow-up1815arrow-down1external-linkIn world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercuryarstechnica.comsome_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to World News@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square176fedilink
minus-squareLizardking27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up70·4 months agoActually that’s allowed, google en poissant.
minus-squarestringere@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·4 months agoGoogling “en poissant” yields “en passant” as a suggested term. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant En poissant = in sticking En passant = in passing En poissant = in fish Je suis hereux d’apprendre quelques psuedo-homonymes en francais ce jour! Merci!
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·4 months agoWOOOSHHH Is the sound the pun made as it just whizzed by you.
minus-squareLizardking27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoMerci à vous! I do not know French, and my comment was a pun on “en passant” using the word “poison”, but I appreciate the free lesson!
minus-squarestringere@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoVous etes remerci. “You’re welcome” is literally “you are rewelcome”. :)
minus-squareLeate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoActual Russian.
Actually that’s allowed, google en poissant.
Googling “en poissant” yields “en passant” as a suggested term.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant
En poissant = in sticking En passant = in passing En poissant = in fish
Je suis hereux d’apprendre quelques psuedo-homonymes en francais ce jour!
Merci!
WOOOSHHH
Is the sound the pun made as it just whizzed by you.
Merci à vous! I do not know French, and my comment was a pun on “en passant” using the word “poison”, but I appreciate the free lesson!
Vous etes remerci. “You’re welcome” is literally “you are rewelcome”. :)
Holy nightshade!
Actual Russian.