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  • Fargeol@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “planter” in french can mean three things : plant (a seed), crash (a system) or break up (with someone)
    Hence the triple pun

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      The system crashing I didn’t know, does the computer plants itself or it plants you? in Spanish to plant someone or leave someone planted is to not show up on a date, so I would find it very funny if it was the latter.

      Is the break up closer to dumping? I love to learn this kind on nuances.

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        22 hours ago

        I don’t speak french or Spanish, but in Italian “windows ti ha piantato” it has the same three nuances that op wrote. When a computer is “piantato” it means it’s frozen/crashed. Like it’s stuck, planted in the ground.

        For example someone can shout “Cazzo!!! Questo cazzo di computer si è piantato e ho perso il salvataggio del cazzo! Cazzo!”

        Also a girlfriend can “piantato” = break up or do no show on appointment. And also “piantato” main meaning is to plant something in the spil

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        “L’ordinateur a planté” means the computer crashed. There’s no complement to the verb there, it just “planted.”

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          L’ordinateur a planté, now I get it.

          After looking a couple of dictionaries what I was trying to ask is if it was “a planté” or “s’est planté”

          Thanks

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            “se planter” is yet another meaning of the word, it’s slang for “make a mistake” or “have an accident” (usually involving a vehicle). E.g.:

            Je me suis planté à mon examen de maths

            Je me suis planté en moto

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        “Ma petite amie m’a planté” is closer to “my girlfriend dumped me”, it’s a bit familiar. “Break up with X” could be “rompre avec X”