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Old Aug 21, 2013 | 4:57 pm
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Originally Posted by brendog
Pretty much everything sounds better in French. Par exemple:

J'ai vomi dans la poubelle. vs. I puked in the trash.
Choufleur me fait peter. vs. Cauliflower makes me fart.

NB: Too lazy to deal with accents on my iPad...
IIRC the verb for to have sex, perhaps a bit more crude, is baiser; it might be reflexive like se coucher, to go to bed, not use a couch. To me, it is reminiscent of debasing oneself. Not nice.
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