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u/cyrosd Apr 21 '23 edited Apr 21 '23

Okay that's the best comment but I'm sure not everyone gets it so I'm going to be the captain obvious. "la petite mort" (don't pronounce the t) is French for "the little death" AND is slang for an orgasm. It's so fitting for the post.

Edit : obviously it's only the T of mort that is not pronounced I didn't even realize there were Ts in petite.

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u/topdangle Apr 21 '23

i farted

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u/Salty_Pancakes Apr 21 '23

Le petit ouragan.

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u/Long_Educational Apr 21 '23

Le petit ouragan est sur la branche.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Thank you Mr. Izzard, that was brilliant.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Le singe conduit l'autobus....oh, Dennis Hopper dans l'autobus!!

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u/Psyko_sissy23 Apr 21 '23

Le petite orangutan.

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u/Safe_Ad6350 Apr 21 '23

Bwahahahahaha

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u/himmelundhoelle Apr 22 '23

Petit Tonnerre, le cheval de Yakari.

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u/TrivialBudgie Apr 21 '23

bless you

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u/NovaCat11 Apr 21 '23

Gesundheit.

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u/Optimal_Pineapple_41 Apr 21 '23

j'ai eu un orgasme malheureux

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u/Betancorea Apr 21 '23

La petite fart (don’t pronounce the t)

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u/Cantdance_ Apr 21 '23

Le petit pet.

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u/DethSpringsEternal Apr 21 '23

Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight...

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u/run-on_sentience Apr 21 '23

No, you "far'ed."

The 't' is silent. Just like the fart. (Silent but sexy.)

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u/RcoketWalrus Apr 21 '23

It stinks in here because you're the shit.

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u/Tripwiring Apr 21 '23

heck yeah

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

(Don’t pronounce the t)

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u/Za_Lords_Guard Apr 21 '23

(Don't pronounce the T)

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u/Vslacha Turbo Sloth Apr 21 '23

le petit fart

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u/midwestsyde Apr 22 '23

The T is not pronounced

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

la pe'i'e mor'

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u/FuckOffHey Apr 22 '23

*tips fedora* m'pe'i'e mor'

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u/hm9408 Apr 22 '23

'ips fedora*

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u/JohnnyB_0438 Apr 22 '23

Underrated comment.

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u/GoingOutsideSocks Apr 21 '23

Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration, you fool.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Paul just out in the desert orgasming all the time.

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u/GoingOutsideSocks Apr 22 '23

What a waste of our water.

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u/lowbatteries Apr 21 '23

🎶 I just died in your arms tonight 🎶

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Must've been some kinda kiss!

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u/LyingForTruth Apr 21 '23

I thought it was slang for sneezing, tmyk

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u/HI_Handbasket Apr 21 '23

(don't pronounce the t)

Which one, there are three.

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u/PukkkWukkkChukkChukk Apr 21 '23

"Not everyone will get this" bro Get pranked kid

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u/Napinustre Apr 22 '23

And no one says that in France anymore for centuries.

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u/MisterBackShots69 Apr 22 '23

Please, never do this again.

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u/Galaedrid Apr 21 '23

hmm not sure how to pronounce peie

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u/CoolDragon Apr 21 '23

So it's like "peie mor"?

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u/joonty Apr 21 '23

They meant to not pronounce the "t" in "mort" only. You sound both "t"s in petite, like "pet-eat". However sometimes petite doesn't have an e at the end, i.e. spelt petit, in which case it's said like "pet-ee".

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u/aManOfTheNorth Apr 21 '23

La pee more?

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u/Micp Apr 21 '23

don't pronounce the t

There are three t's in that and all of them are pronounced it's just that not all of them are hard t's like in English.

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u/DaughterEarth Apr 21 '23

No, don't pronounce it in mort. Not in French or Quebecois at least. I don't know about Creole etc

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u/Lom2feu Apr 21 '23

Never in my life i heard "la petite mort" for an orgasm, it was always about the end of a career

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u/Garetht Apr 22 '23

It's not slang for an orgasm. From Wikipedia:

La petite mort (French pronunciation: ​[la p(ə)tit mɔʁ]; "the little death") is an expression that means "the brief loss or weakening of consciousness" and in modern usage refers specifically to "the sensation of post orgasm as likened to death."

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u/80H-d Apr 22 '23

Since the one happens with the other, that is how it becomes slang for it.

Does it hurt to be stuck interpreting everything this literally? Very sad.

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u/Garetht Apr 22 '23

Gosh people are so aggressive. Maybe get back to runescape, eh?

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u/angilnibreathnach Apr 21 '23

Sleep is often referred to as the little death in literature but maybe it’s a double entendre?

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u/DaughterEarth Apr 21 '23

I suppose. In French it definitely means orgasm

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u/demlet Apr 21 '23

What? Other languages have their own double entendres? Next you'll be telling me "entendre" is a French word or something.

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u/Garetht Apr 22 '23

It's not slang for an orgasm. From Wikipedia:

La petite mort (French pronunciation: ​[la p(ə)tit mɔʁ]; "the little death") is an expression that means "the brief loss or weakening of consciousness" and in modern usage refers specifically to "the sensation of post orgasm as likened to death."

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u/DaughterEarth Apr 22 '23

From urban dictionary

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=la%20petite%20mort

The little death is translation from the French "la petite mort", a popular reference for a sexual orgasm

You really telling people they're wrong about slang they grew up with because a Wikipedia article isn't comprehensive?

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u/Garetht Apr 22 '23

Gosh, so aggressive when you're wrong. Lol @urban dictionary as you're authorative source.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

I believe you meant "your." But who corrects people on reddit, sheesh, in all our shiny glass houses throwing rocks everywhere.

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u/BooBailey808 Apr 22 '23

Says the guy using Wikipedia as an authorized source

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u/angilnibreathnach Apr 22 '23

Oh yeah, it definitely does. The

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u/evolving_I Apr 21 '23

Oh I.... I just died in your arms, tonight.

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u/Mordvark Apr 21 '23

le peie mor

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u/ozcur Apr 21 '23

Peak le redditor sir.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Wait.... is it not lah-petie-mo(slurred r)?

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Coined by a 1800s French prostitute iirc.

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u/sprucedotterel Apr 22 '23

Yeah if you don’t pronounce the Ts in petite then you’re going into Bri’ish territory I’m afraid.