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2026-04-26 11:01 UTC
@Virginicus Ok then, "Trifouilly-les-Oies" or "Perpète-les-Oies" is a fictive place that symbolizes the most remote country village you could imagine, the kind of place you'll find in France with a bunch of old houses and farms, less than 500 inhabitants and more farm animals. When you say "il/elle habite à Perpète, à Perpète-les-Oies, à Trifouilly-les-Oies", it means that person lives in a very remote place far from towns.
In my region people also said "Perpètes-les-Alouettes", cause it rhymes.
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@hist_myth@mastodon.top 2026-04-26 11:02
@Virginicus "Trifouilly-les-Alouettes" is a personal variation. Obviously since it's supposed to mean a remote place IN FRANCE, it would be non-Greek, hence Barbaric ;)