▲ 640 ▼ Step up your game, France (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 week ago* by inari@piefed.zip to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 167 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 child) Ha I enjoyed that tale. What happened after? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children) We didn't date but became friends. One or two years after we met, with a group of friends we went to Quebec with her and stayed at her family cabin that was very far north of Chicoutimi, near a small lake, and it was breathtaking. There was another confusion though. She referred to going on the lake on the "ponton" (pier in French from the metropole). But we saw the lake and there was no pier on it. She was in fact referring to the kind of boat they have to chill on the lake. It was more some kind of draft : square, flat, with a lot of room to chill and no focus on going un a particular direction, which makes sense. It looks more like a pier than a boat, it was just not on the water when she talked about it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] fox2263@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 child) Ah interesting. I think that’s what we call a “pontoon” which is just a floating…platform, that you move with an oar. Well, the barrel things under it keeping it afloat are the pontoons. Languages. Funny things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 child) A pontoon has two hulls (stacks of barrels). If it has three, it's a tri-toon 🤓 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago How deep can this language hole take us! permalink fedilink source parent [–] MrScruff@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago* We call them pontoon boats in English. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children) We didn't date but became friends. One or two years after we met, with a group of friends we went to Quebec with her and stayed at her family cabin that was very far north of Chicoutimi, near a small lake, and it was breathtaking. There was another confusion though. She referred to going on the lake on the "ponton" (pier in French from the metropole). But we saw the lake and there was no pier on it. She was in fact referring to the kind of boat they have to chill on the lake. It was more some kind of draft : square, flat, with a lot of room to chill and no focus on going un a particular direction, which makes sense. It looks more like a pier than a boat, it was just not on the water when she talked about it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] fox2263@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 child) Ah interesting. I think that’s what we call a “pontoon” which is just a floating…platform, that you move with an oar. Well, the barrel things under it keeping it afloat are the pontoons. Languages. Funny things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 child) A pontoon has two hulls (stacks of barrels). If it has three, it's a tri-toon 🤓 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago How deep can this language hole take us! permalink fedilink source parent [–] MrScruff@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago* We call them pontoon boats in English. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 child) Ah interesting. I think that’s what we call a “pontoon” which is just a floating…platform, that you move with an oar. Well, the barrel things under it keeping it afloat are the pontoons. Languages. Funny things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 child) A pontoon has two hulls (stacks of barrels). If it has three, it's a tri-toon 🤓 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago How deep can this language hole take us! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 child) A pontoon has two hulls (stacks of barrels). If it has three, it's a tri-toon 🤓 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago How deep can this language hole take us! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago How deep can this language hole take us! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MrScruff@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago* We call them pontoon boats in English. permalink fedilink source parent