Thread:VicGeorge2K9/@comment-26171965-20171009105032/@comment-1323688-20171009111301

I don't really know much about French humor, and sometimes it is just untranslatable to other languages. Mostly I just do a pragmatic adaptation and think "what would Americans and English-speaking people understand if this were seen or heard in their eyes?" Like adapting Farmer's "cre vingt schtroumpfs" ("sacred twenty smurfs") expression into something like "sweet mother of Smurf," which is more understandable to an English-speaking audience.