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happy meals
« on: July 28, 2010, 03:23:22 AM »
post here if you've actually asked for 'a happy meal with extra happy'. :)
any interesting responses?
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2010, 05:58:49 AM »
Well, I was too old for the happy meal lol and didn't go very often to McDonald... and the joke isn't really funny in French (the translation is "Je voudrais un happy meal. Avec un supplément spécial" who means "I want an happy meal. With a special extra"... not really a joke =_=') PS: That's why I can't really say this sentence for the One Volume One RAFian project, even if I took this volume... in French, it s*cks...
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2010, 01:48:45 PM »
Dameg, could you not perhaps translate it into something that means "I want a happy meal; please make it more happy [or happier]"?

Or with "extra joy" or something like that? :p

Hehe... I'm multilingual, but French is the one romance language that I've never dabbled at all. Sorry. :(
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2010, 02:18:06 PM »
I haven't, but my friend worked at McDonald's and got it all the time.  It was code for putting marijuana into the happy meal box >.<  Or maybe just sexual innuendo.  And no, she didn't give any to them  ::)
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2010, 02:28:50 PM »
Quote from: Estelore on July 28, 2010, 01:48:45 PM
Dameg, could you not perhaps translate it into something that means "I want a happy meal; please make it more happy [or happier]"?

Or with "extra joy" or something like that? :p

Hehe... I'm multilingual, but French is the one romance language that I've never dabbled at all. Sorry. :(
Well even if you take it to have that meaning, which you certainly can, it makes more sense but the joke is still lost in the translation because the "happy" isn't treated as an ingredient that they explicitly ask for more of. It actually could have been funnier as a 'language joke' if they had rendered it:  "Je voudrais un happy meal. Avec un supplément happy"
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2010, 03:55:04 PM »
Quote from: Kotetsu1442 on July 28, 2010, 02:28:50 PM
Quote from: Estelore on July 28, 2010, 01:48:45 PM
Dameg, could you not perhaps translate it into something that means "I want a happy meal; please make it more happy [or happier]"?

Or with "extra joy" or something like that? :p

Hehe... I'm multilingual, but French is the one romance language that I've never dabbled at all. Sorry. :(
Well even if you take it to have that meaning, which you certainly can, it makes more sense but the joke is still lost in the translation because the "happy" isn't treated as an ingredient that they explicitly ask for more of. It actually could have been funnier as a 'language joke' if they had rendered it:  "Je voudrais un happy meal. Avec un supplément happy"
Yeah, the joke isn't the same, even if every French know what "happy" means...
And as the joke isn't in the actual translation, I don't think I can make my own translation for the project... or can I? For example: "Je voudrais un happy meal. Avec un supplément de joie." But I can't translate "happy meal", as we call them like that in France too...
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2010, 12:17:40 AM »
I was too old for happy meals. But if I ever have kids I'll ask that for their orders XD
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2010, 12:49:32 AM »
You are NEVER too old for happy meals.  :P

Seriously, the food is apportioned exactly right to satiate me without leaving me feeling lethargic or bloated. Once I get past the grease and salt (yes, that was a weak Aximili reference), they are rather tasty. :)
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2010, 02:44:36 AM »
I asked this at mcdonalds. But they forgot to give me any happy (they forgot the toy)
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2010, 03:17:32 AM »
lol

i got my younger sister to ask for extra happy and she got 3 extra nuggets
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2010, 06:41:52 AM »
Quote from: KitHunter on July 29, 2010, 03:17:32 AM
lol

i got my younger sister to ask for extra happy and she got 3 extra nuggets

lol Nice ^^
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2010, 10:51:21 AM »
Quote from: KitHunter on July 29, 2010, 03:17:32 AM
lol

i got my younger sister to ask for extra happy and she got 3 extra nuggets

Awesome ;D maybe I should try that some time.
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2010, 11:12:18 AM »
I don't like McDonalds enough to go there and order something that's not on the breakfast menu. Maybe I'll do it if they start doing breakfast Happy Meals
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2010, 03:02:23 PM »
Quote from: Blue M&M on July 29, 2010, 11:12:18 AM
I don't like McDonalds enough to go there and order something that's not on the breakfast menu. Maybe I'll do it if they start doing breakfast Happy Meals
Wait... You're American and you don't like McDonald?
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Re: happy meals
« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2010, 03:21:42 PM »
McDonald's and all fast food like that is pretty awful...I only eat it if it's the only thing open late at night and I'm dying of hunger -___-

Except maybe once in a long while, I'll get a craving for a Jr. Cheeseburger XD
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