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Origin of the phrase "nous défions"
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05-18-2009, 10:28
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Interesting thread. The difficulty in adopting foreign phrases sometimes is the inability to translate them literally into English.
Of course Nous Defions has a much better ring to it than "We'll Kick Your Ass" I suppose.
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