Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
des mal-aimés
English translation:
outcasts, rejects, creeps, perverts
Added to glossary by
NancyLynn
Jul 5, 2005 21:32
18 yrs ago
French term
Canada
16 years of experience, highly reliable
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish
des mal-aimer
French to English
Other
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Il existe une organization pédophile qui paye du monde pour créer des mal-aimer dans le but de produire des idiots sur cette planète.
This is from Quebec and I know, the language is not good.
This is from Quebec and I know, the language is not good.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +2 | creeps, rejects |
NancyLynn
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| 3 +1 | unloved people |
Nick Lingris
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| 3 | perverts |
Baadshah
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| 3 | Misfits/black sheep/unpopular people |
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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| 3 | rejected, unwanted or undesired |
Bruce Berger
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| 3 | people who don't receive enough love |
David Vaughn
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| 3 | AFFECTIONLESS |
Baadshah
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| 1 +1 | outcasts |
Jonathan MacKerron
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Proposed translations
+2
2 mins
Selected
creeps, rejects
mal aimés
3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "This one was confusing... thanks to all."
+1
4 mins
Jonathan MacKerron
Native in English
Retired as of Jan 2019!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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32
outcasts
a guess
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
sarahl (X)
22 mins
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13 mins
perverts
another way of describing them!!!
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Gina W
: yes, particularly in this case
1 hr
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| disagree |
David Vaughn
: As Bruce has illustrated, I think we're talking about the victims here.
9 hrs
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23 mins
Misfits/black sheep/unpopular people
Well, there's 3 possibilities.
32 mins
French term (edited):
des mal-aim�s
rejected, unwanted or undesired
This is another possibility. Strangely enough, I came up with a number of Canadian references when I googled (on google.fr, restricted to French language sites) both "mal-aimé" and "pedophilie". They talked about the concept of the rejected, unwanted or undesired child being more likely to be subject to abuse. Seems to go in the same direction as what you're saying.
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Note added at 33 mins (2005-07-05 22:05:51 GMT)
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...well, sorry, not \"what you\'re saying\", I meant \"what you\'re translating\" ;-)
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Note added at 33 mins (2005-07-05 22:05:51 GMT)
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...well, sorry, not \"what you\'re saying\", I meant \"what you\'re translating\" ;-)
9 hrs
people who don't receive enough love
Aren't we talking about creating potential victims here, and not their torturers? (Though sometimes the first becomes the last.)
+1
13 hrs
Nick Lingris
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Works in field
United Kingdom
The word is my oyster
Native in: Greek 
Works in: English to Greek, Greek to English, Greek
Related KudoZ points
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10
French term (edited):
des mal-aimes
unloved people
What a silly sentence! There's a pedophile organization that pays people to create unloved people so as to fill the planet with idiots?
How do you "create" unloved people? Do unloved people go on to become idiots?
To take away some of the sordidness of this question, here's a stanza from Apollinaire's 'La Chanson du Mal Aimé' (The Song of the Poorly Loved):
Les dimanches s'y éternisent
Et les orgues de Barbarie
Y sanglotent dans les cours grises
Les fleurs aux balcons de Paris
Penchent comme la tour de Pise.
How do you "create" unloved people? Do unloved people go on to become idiots?
To take away some of the sordidness of this question, here's a stanza from Apollinaire's 'La Chanson du Mal Aimé' (The Song of the Poorly Loved):
Les dimanches s'y éternisent
Et les orgues de Barbarie
Y sanglotent dans les cours grises
Les fleurs aux balcons de Paris
Penchent comme la tour de Pise.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Vicky Papaprodromou
: "...to create unloved people so as to fill the planet with idiots?" I love it!!!
26 mins
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16 hrs
AFFECTIONLESS
yes, possibly this is more the idea than "perverts", my earlier suggestion!!
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Note added at 16 hrs 28 mins (2005-07-06 14:00:14 GMT)
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affectionless people, or THE affectionless
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Note added at 16 hrs 28 mins (2005-07-06 14:00:14 GMT)
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affectionless people, or THE affectionless
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