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Old 07-28-2009, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by SDB View Post
it literally means 'what is it that'; it's a way to start a question in french i.e. :

qu'est-ce que c'est = what is it (literally : what is it that that is)



my guess :

salut tout le monde, quoi de neuf?
peut-être tu penses CFHollister, qu'est-ce-que tu es fou?
d'accord...à plus

hello everyone, what's new?
maybe you think, CFHollister, are you crazy?
allright...till later (would've guessed 'à bi1to' made more sense, but i'm not a native speaker, so could be right)
Yeah, that's pretty much on target. For "ksk t'fu ?"/"Qu'est-ce que tu fous ?", I pretty much meant it as translated on the page I linked to as "What the hell are you doing?" Also, French has no present continuous (as it's called in English) aspect, and just uses the simple present instead. Where English can distinguish "I think" from "I am thinking", French will use "je pense" ("I think").

So the translation into informal English should be more like:
Hi everyone! What's up?
Maybe you're thinking, "CFHollister, what the hell are you doing?"
...
Alright... Later.
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