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[-] cgTemplar@sh.itjust.works 22 points 7 hours ago

In belgian french, we have "Outsiplou-les-Bains-de-Pieds". Made up town name that both sounds funny and too long to actually exist, but the Outsiplou part kind of means "listen if it's raining" in walloon. And "Perpète-les-Oies". Which you could translate to "Far-away Geese", which is plain gibberish but sounds like a lot of real places in France. There's plently of variations but they mostly try to invent a name that sounds like a stereotypical countryside village name.

[-] matelt@feddit.uk 3 points 4 hours ago

Ooh I always thought it was Outsiploutte. In my area of France we have Perpète-les-Andouillettes (which kind of translates similar to les oies) and Pétaouchnoque.

[-] riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

TIL it's not called "hutsilpu" and actually has as story behind it lol

i'd never seen it spelled out or the long version, so i just assumed x3

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