Please don't say 'Hit the Fat'

[TaranTheWanderer]

Where I'm from, we call that "New Brunswick French."

Example: Tu vas jouer au hockey tonight, eh?

I’m not from New Brunswick but it’s possible I’ve used that phrase in a conversation…

 

[Ryujin]

Isn't that French Acadian Chiac?

Quote: Chiac employs English and French simultaneously, side by side (contrary to Quebec joual, for example, which incorporates francisized anglicisms without activating the English language in the minds of its speakers, most of whom are unilingual francophones).

Chiac

Chiac (also spelled chiak or chiaque) is a specific type of discursive switching between French and English among individuals who are highly bilingual and have ...

www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

Yup, but I don't know anyone who would call it that.

 

[Riley]

The Minnesotan town of New Prague… rhymes with “vague.”

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Honoré de Balzac isn't going to rise from his grave and curse a player's dice for mispronouncing it.

Or so you'd like to believe.

 

[billd91]

Or so you'd like to believe.

I think it’s safe to say he hasn’t yet. So, if he can, what’s he waiting for?

 

[trappedslider]

I’m not from New Brunswick but it’s possible I’ve used that phrase in a conversation…

 

[The Soloist]

It didn't go well for Washington against the 'supposed' whoring British troops in New Brunswick. He was almost caught and hanged.

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/new-brunswick/sections/government/articles/george-washington-escaped-being-captured-in-new-brunswick-thanks-to-alexander-hamilton

 

[ThrorII]

Don't get us started on Melee.......

 

[The Soloist]

Don't get us started on Melee.......

It's from the French Mêlée!

Wiki: The phrase comes from the French expression pêle-mêle, a rhyme based on the old French mesler, meaning to mix or mingle. [3][4]
The French term melee was first used in English in c. 1640 (also derived from the old French mesler,[5] but the Old French stem survives in medley and meddle).[1]

(edit) Saying Me-Lee or Me-Lay doesn't dramatically change the meaning. It's not the same as Coup-de-Gras (Hit the Fat) and Coup-de-Grâce (Mercy Killing).

 

[schneeland]

Our French sentences were sprinkled with mispronounced English words like Armor Class, Longsword and Darkvision

This reminds me of the joyful days in the 90s when I played a lot of CRPGs with my then-best-friend and thus learnt about a lot of weapon and armour types. What we didn't learn until it came up month later at school is how to pronounce them correctly (I specifically remember pronouncing sabre as if it were a German word and that it took a while to get that out of my system).