Comments on: The Great Santini exemplifies what we now call toxic masculinity

By: David Whitewolf

David Whitewolf — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 05:32:53 +0000

An homage: https://youtu.be/3ld3imEfpZU

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:37:31 +0000

It could have also been American WWI doughboys, who picked up lots of things in France…

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:10:50 +0000

“But the term goes back before World War 2, so it might come from Navy visits to Marseille?”

Possible. But why not long ago from French-culture inhabitants of Louisiana? Or from Americans across the border from French-speaking Quebec? Or from French immigrants to the US?

So many routes for language to evolve!

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:42:28 +0000

I had naively assumed the term came from the Vietnam War, so I would’ve assumed it was a twice-butchered pronunciation, as it went from French to Vietnamese and then from Vietnamese to American English.

But the term goes back before World War 2, so it might come from Navy visits to Marseille?

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:14:13 +0000

In most of France “putain” is pronounced with the “n” very soft or even silent, but here in SW France it makes an “ng” sound like “putaing”. It’s a core part of the SW accent. Did the American usage of “poontang” have some SW France origin?