Spoken French - Quand le streamer Antoine Daniel était à Las Vegas
Full text, translation and some notes below.
Texte :
Eh putain d'ailleurs je- chais pas si j'vous avais déjà montré mais... Là-bas c'est que des voitures de débiles bien sûr, aux états-unis c'est des… c'est… "c'est qui qui a la plus grosse". Et une fois, quand on était à un… à un feu rouge, y'avait euh... un camion à côté d'nous. Et sur ce camion, messieurs dames, y'avait -chais pas si on va bien voir à l'écran- mais y'avait ça sur les roues. Le mec, il s'est cru dans Mad Max. Mais en vrai j'étais en mode "mais c'est pas possible que ce soit légal" ! C'est pas possible, même aux States, c'est pas légal d'avoir ça ! J'veux dire, c'est… on est où là !
Traduction :
Oh (putain) by the way I- I don't know if I already showed you but... There's only idiot's cars of course, in the United States, it's "who's got the biggest". And once, when we were at a... a red light, there was... a truck next to us. And on this truck, ladies and gentlemen, there was -I don't know if we'll see it on screen- but there was that on the wheels. The dude thought he was in Mad Max. But for real, I was like "it can't be legal" ! It can't be, even in the States, it can't be legal to own that ! What I'm saying is... What the fuck !
Obviously, it was hard to translate, and I opt to keep as close to a word-for-word translation as possible, as long as it made sense. Here's some spoken langage features&expression I want to highlight :
y'avait : "il y avait" but with an elision. It's so often said that way that even in informal text it will be written with a y.
C'est des "c'est qui qui a la plus grosse" : c'est is used so often that you can use it to introduce a plural (instead of ce sont). Here, it introduces a "kind of person", and the "kind of person" is refered to with a vulgar expression where the word dick is ommited. The joke is that the people are using the size of their car to assert dominance, in place of their dick sizes.
messieurs dames : before someone shows something, if they really want to make it feels as if they're showing you something spectacular, they can use this old-timey/show host greetings.
il s'est cru dans : "se croire" is often used to mock someone, it might be another of saying they're delusional, in a jokey way.
j'étais en mode : "être en mode", here mode refers to the way an engine or an operation might be specified to be or act, as in "emergency mode" or "edit mode". If you want to dismiss someone bothering you while you're not in the mood because you're working, you might say "non mais je suis en mode boulot là, je peux pas discuter, on peut faire ça plus tard ?"
c'est pas possible : often used on it's own, either jockingly as in the clip, in a serious tone if you've just learn a bad news, or angrily if the news is apalling. So look out for that one.
on est où là : or alternatively, in an angry tone, "nan mais on est où là !". Literally means "where are we right now", as in "what kind of place are we in right now for that type of things to happen. If you have a habit of letting the lights on in rooms you aren't in, someone might pester "on est où là, à Versailles ?"
