Les Miserables Should Be Called The Miserable

[hiplop]

^ I'm eating one rn

[Zulfy]

You gave me baader meinhof hiplop. Jerk.

[Felissan]

Poutine is also the French spelling for Putin (as in Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin), which gives these last few posts another absolutely awe-inspiring dimension.
V. Hugo's Les Misérables is one of the most iconic novels in the history of French literature, so I think it's justified to keep an adaptation's title untranslated.

[choof]

keep making threads zulfy i like reading them in an ironic capacity to go in line with your ironic posting style

[Zulfy]

I think you're not the only one.

Otherwise they'd have kicked me out by now.

[Elbirn]

My main beef with the thing is that french is an average language, like any other, a bit too guttural even. It's only because of cultural hegemony and colonialism that it's considered something to be admired.

The French are a beautiful people and their language sounds like angel farts




That's a compliment

[BROseidon]

My main beef with the thing is that french is an average language, like any other, a bit too guttural even. It's only because of cultural hegemony and colonialism that it's considered something to be admired.

And now we've entered badling territory.

[BROseidon]

Like ranking languages is actually one of the most badling things you can do.

[Zulfy]

For me its the same as comparing architechture.

Some is cooler than others.

[YawningAngel]

Poutine is also the French spelling for Putin (as in Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin), which gives these last few posts another absolutely awe-inspiring dimension.
V. Hugo's Les Misérables is one of the most iconic novels in the history of French literature, so I think it's justified to keep an adaptation's title untranslated.

The only other novel title we don't translate is

Á la recherche du temps perdu

. Pretty much everything else gets shamelessly anglicised, cf.

No Exit

and

The Stranger

.