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ElectricVocalist
jlai.lu

I tried so hard to understand as a french and still had to look for the answer. OP's mistake is that it is pronounced fozo, not foo. The x is only silent when at the end of a word

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palordrolap
fedia.io

The venerable Jargon File has the French metasyntactic variables (i.e. the equivalents to foo and bar) as toto, titi, tata and tutu.

Or to take this in another direction: foo sounds like French "fou" which means "mad" (as in "insane"), so "coucou" might be an interesting alternative.

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Wildmimicreply
anarchist.nexus

Kansas doggie, titties, indian car, pink skirt are strange metasyntactic variables.

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palordrolapreply
fedia.io

I figure they're more likely related, in spirit and vocalisation if not etymologically, to the French phrase «et patati, et patata», translatable as "blah blah blah" or "yada yada yada".

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Venatorreply
lemmy.nz

Or maybe something like "Foutu en l'air" and "Au-delà de tout irréparable"?

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Ragdoll Xreply
sh.itjust.works

The French pronounce the letters "eaux" as just "o", and foo and bar are placeholder names for functions that are often used in programming tutorials.

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RustyNovareply
lemmy.world

Yes, but it's "oh", not "oo" (as in football)

So it's read "foh-oh". If you want to be correct, it's "Fou - barre - base" ("foo - bar - baz")

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one_old_coderreply
piefed.social

I'm French and most people know that oo is not "o." Fou would have been the proper way to write it.

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Owlreply
mander.xyz

The “oo” in “foo” is written “ou” in French

Thus foo -> fou

“Feauxeaux” would be pronounced “fozo” (‘o’ as in “cold”)

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one_old_coderreply
piefed.social

Not really. Every programmer in France knows how to speak English, and foo is foo, not anything else.

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FishFace
piefed.social

Language jokes by people who evidently know bugger all about the language are extremely cringe

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FishFacereply
piefed.social

to write the General American pronunciation of "mom" with French orthography would be something like "mam".

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adbreply
lemmy.ml

The best jokes are still in the comments though

Regarding the other errors, it seems your compiler is simply on strike. This can happen occasionally when compiling french code, and should fix itself in a few days.

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Randelungreply
lemmy.world

eaux is pronounced o in the world oiseaux, which means birds. foo is a common stand-in name in programming, along with bar. foo has two o's, which are both replaced with the french spelling.

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Owlreply
mander.xyz

It doesn’t work (as explained in another comment)

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WhyJiffiereply
sh.itjust.works

of course it doesn't! if my user tags are not lying, you are probably using a hungarian operating system, so you should be using this:

megh fó(n):
    visszatér n+1

megh vendéglő(n):
    visszatér n-1
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Owlreply
mander.xyz

if my user tags are not lying, you are probably using a hungarian operating system

Ohhh, you can see that ? Which clients implement that feature ? You learn something new about lemmy everyday xD

Btw “using a hungarian operating system” is false

And

megh fó(n):
    visszatér n+1

megh vendéglő(n):
    visszatér n-1

Isn’t correct either

It should be

függ fú(n):
    visszaküld n+1

függ bár(n):
    visszaküld n-1

LLM translations aren’t very good when it comes to languages spoken by such a few people x)

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WhyJiffiereply
sh.itjust.works

Ohhh, you can see that ? Which clients implement that feature ? You learn something new about lemmy everyday xD

It's Voyager, but these are not public tags, I just tagged you earlier :)

Isn’t correct either

well it depends. the code in OP was mimicking python, where you begin functions with the shorthand for "definition", not "function"

LLM translations aren’t very good when it comes to languages spoken by such a few people x)

bojler eladó! de ha nem kell, most megfizetsz megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseidért!

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Owlreply
mander.xyz

It's Voyager, but these are not public tags, I just tagged you earlier :)

Oh, nice !

I didn’t pay attention to the python thing, though the ”fú” still stands

bojler eladó!

Neeeeee, de egy fasz vagyok

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