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The French calling orgasms “the little death” has always stricken me as most excellent.
However “The face of the little death” for ahego (don’t google; I just learned the hard way) doesn’t make sense.
It should be “visage haletant” or something less of a mouthful.
Well, fortunately the picture is a joke.
However, i's based on this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61647192 - and truth be told the original isn't much less ridiculous than the parody.
The streamer one in particular is like the French version of that 4chan green text about American vs British names. "MFW they call it a 'gun' instead of a Rooty Tooty Point And Shoot"
I don't speak French so I'm not confident on the syllable count...but it takes like 5x longer to say, right?
Ah, you reminded me of that classic
exactly that lol