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Jaime Fradera
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since 2000-11-25

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Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2006-02-06 07:07 PM

What does "la cross" mean in patois Quebecois?
It might be something nast so you can write me off list ...
Munching on crepes, frits and enchiladas a la mode and sipping coke au gratin.
Eh, aenimal ... EA ... Mysteria? ...
Chao baby.

Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

1 posted 2006-02-06 07:29 PM

Oops. what I meant to say was munching on frites, enchiladas a la tex mex, no no, frites Francois ...
I've fortoggen my spelling Francois.
Please don't tell my dead grandmother ...
la cross la cross ......

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2006-02-07 12:59 PM

Well, la cross is actually a cross country race, and lacrosse is a game played with a small racket and a wooden ball a little bigger than a tennis ball. This game was first played by the French Jesuits in the 1600's. However, now la cross can also mean (in French,) "the cross" but in the feminine gender, le cross, would be masculine. LOL did that help?

Jaime Fradera
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since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

3 posted 2006-02-07 08:02 AM

Thanks Sharon. The reason I asked is they were going to market a car named "la cross" in Quebec and they failed to realize that, apparently, in street lingo, it meant something quite unintended.
Like the apocrophyal story that Chevy couldn't sell their Chevy Nova in Mexico because in Spanish "no va" means it doesn't go :---------)

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

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4 posted 2006-02-08 01:33 AM

lacrosse is Quebecois slang for masturbation popular amongst teens, don't ask me why. i've never understood quebecois slang or swear words.

the absolute worst things you can say in quebec are seemingly harmless, and oddly, religious terms. for example tabernac(tabernacle) is the equivalent of the F word or worse. i suppose it's the act of sacrilege that makes them so powerful. they do have french equivalents of our words, but for pure power, the holier, the dirtier.

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