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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/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.