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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy French is rudimentary at best...
but wouldn't "Pierre Delecto" translate to "tasty peter?"
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My French is rudimentary at best... (Original Post)
Wounded Bear
Oct 2019
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I'm hardly fluent in French, but don't think Delecto is French. Maybe a bastardized Italian
GulfCoast66
Oct 2019
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customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)1. Too funny!
Well, there goes Mittens' efforts to look like the grown-up in the room.
unblock
(52,253 posts)2. rudimentary indeed; "delecto" is latin....
but "tasty peter" is not far off.
delecto is probably more "delightful" than "tasty", but either way....
i saw someone suggest it's a play on "in pari delicto", a latin legalese phrase meaning "equally at fault".
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)3. I'm hardly fluent in French, but don't think Delecto is French. Maybe a bastardized Italian
Of Delicato?
Which would mean delicate or soft Peter.
Which is even funnier. And more 8th grade!
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)4. Or did he mean...
...delicto, as in in flagrant delicto?
spooky3
(34,458 posts)5. According to Google Translate, "delecto" is Spanish for "elect" nt
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)6. It made me think of...