A developer with principles.
Dec. 9th, 2015 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

“Uninstall Notepad++ if you voted for the Front National.
I don’t care about losing users and I want you to know:
Notepad++ is written by an immigrant, and I shit all over you[1].”
(The Front National is the French extreme-right openly-white-supremacist-party. They’re the French equivalent of the UK British National Party , the Canadian Christian Heritage Party, or the US Republican Party.)
[1]: A less literal translation would be "go fuck yourselves"
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 01:09 am (UTC)Es que je t'emmerde? 8^D
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 01:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 11:30 am (UTC)The author is addressing the xenophobes that voted for the Front National, telling them that an immigrant wrote this software and reminding them that the immigrant pisses "you" off.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 03:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 11:31 am (UTC)Quebecois French would make a better fit for your translation: "et il t'envois chier".
Gotta run to work.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 12:56 pm (UTC)(Okay, I'm also pointing out that the idea that there is one correct translation for "fuck you" seems kind of reductive.)
See ya!
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 09:22 pm (UTC)Or perhaps some mysteries are better left unknown. 8^D
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 06:55 pm (UTC)Translation is never perfect, but I think "shitting on" is a good translation for "emmerder", mirroring senses 1 and 2 as given in the Wiktionary.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 03:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 11:20 am (UTC)French is a very precise language, it's why 18th century treaties were written in French. English was left to run wild in the gutters while French was tamed and regimented by Paris.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 04:58 pm (UTC)Thank you for the clarification.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 12:21 am (UTC)You're welcome. ^_^
edit to add: Torrain is correct! This particular formulation of the phrase is about as vulgar as it gets. So "he says 'fuck you'" is the best translation here.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 03:52 am (UTC)(If only because I see no reason not to give the developer credit for speaking for himself, rather than insisting he is pissing off a bunch of strangers, some of whom might or might not care about him in the slightest.)
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-14 12:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 10:19 pm (UTC)That's an interesting idea. What source should I look into for more on this?
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Date: 2015-12-11 12:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 01:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 09:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 03:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 03:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 04:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 08:50 am (UTC)It's probably worth noting that FN have just had massive gains in the first round of local elections, and the other parties are scrambling to try to shut them down for the next round. Lots of analysis on why this is so, and how much of it is driven by two major terrorist attacks in Paris in one year, but basically there's a surging tide of nationalism and xenophobia in the land of "liberté, égalité, fraternité", and no-one seems quite sure how to combat it.
I'd consider moving somewhere more tolerant, but it seems every other country is heading in the same bloody direction. (Except maybe Canada, but I'm not sure I want to live on the same continent as Trump.)
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 01:39 pm (UTC)But it's looking better - the middle-left party of mostly sensible people tacked hard left to provide a clear alternative to the extreme-right incumbents, the socialist party tacked hard right for some stupid reason and essentially gave all their votes to the middle-left, and the result is a government with smart goals, decent ideas on how to reach those goals, and a mandate.
(If you're looking for a place that HASN'T just come out of a decade of misrule by incompetent and malicious kleptocrats, though, might I suggest Northern Europe? Finland in particular is looking pretty nice lately.)
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 02:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 02:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-10 10:33 pm (UTC)I rather suspect that their coalition partners expected something like this. The PS does not have the reprehensible pedigree that the Sweden Democrats have, so the Centre Party and the conservatives have been free to tame them, in the traditional Finnish way, by going into government with them and then, as it were, by embracing the life out of them. Finland still has its most conservative government in recent memory, but there's noticeable internal dissent in the PS.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 06:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 12:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 01:42 pm (UTC)And yes, the transition from a populistic opportunistic party to taking any sort of real responsibility in power is usually a rough one, for any party. Note eg how Sverigedemokraterna here are struggling desperately to have just the right amount of racism, expelling members left and right. Recently, they shed their entire youth league.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 03:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 05:00 pm (UTC)But the huge strategic mistake has been from the big parties to come up with any constructive proposals for handling the integration, migration, and ghetto problems we do have here. Instead they've responded with more regulations, more flapping around, and so on. So SD was in the position where more and more of their proposals were turning mainstream, at the same time as they could play the bullied victims.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-11 10:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-14 12:31 am (UTC)The problem is, learning another language after you've lost your pre-pubescent brain plasticity is really, really hard. (And Finnish is worst than most).
I mean, after some years of speaking it every day, I can get by in French. But it's still not native to me - I can't read or watch shows in French for relaxation (and my grammar is terrible). Understanding it takes some mental effort, which means that anywhere I go that isn't native English speaking, it's going to be mentally taxing to just go down to the pub and talk crap with the locals.
On the other hand, I have to balance this desire to communicate without effort with my ambition for my kids to be at least bi-lingual, preferably polyglottal.
On the gripping hand, at least I'm in a place where I have that choice.
... also, most Nordic countries maintain their ridiculous QOL stats via terrifying homogeneity, which is another thing I suspect I'd rail against if I actually lived there.