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    Apprentice Nale Gregev's Avatar
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    Possible french words?

    A story I am writing takes place in an alternate reality, and uses some words that sound similar to French. To ensure that these words could not actually have any possible French meaning, I would like to know if anybody knows if these "pseudo" French words could give any strange impressions to a Frenchman that I would not want to intend. I will also be using Google translate, but I feel a human eye and mind would be helpful as well.

    Mai'me te veux

    Le Jeu

    Le Bonset

    Je Capinau

    Lous Soleifet

    Lous Marseillegret

    Le Benatellis

    Le Sponsous

    Madei te Cubatrau

    Musais te Cubatrau

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    I do not have a human mind (there’s another one for you, Baron), but even so will answer as best I can.

    As you probably don’t know what they mean, and we don’t know what they mean, and your potential readers won’t know what they mean, why bother with using them in the first place?

    Just askin’.

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    Some combinations of letters and syllables convey a sense of meaning beyond their use as an actual language. For example, H P Lovecraft's 'Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!' etc. The words are meaningless but have led many hapless souls to believe the Necronomicon exists as an actual historical artifact.

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    Try using Babel Fish. It helped me make all kinds of pseudo-foreign words.
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    the advice is greatly apreciated.

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    "Le Jeu" translates to "the game".

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    Mai'me te veux
    M'aime te veux would mean (although with awful grammar): My like/love your want

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