French 'magic word'

girlyswot · Apr 28, 2013

Is there a word which magicians in France would commonly use at the end of a trick? Abracadabra? Or something else, or nothing at all? It would need to be something that most French people would recognise.

Thanks!

Siri Kirpal · Apr 28, 2013

Sat Nam! (literally "Truth Name"--a Sikh greeting)

You might ask this question in the International section of the forum.

Blessings,

Siri Kirpal

King Neptune · Apr 28, 2013

Abracadabra probably would work. You can check the international section, and see what they can tell.

blacbird · Apr 28, 2013

Merde.

This is uttered as an epithet, only if the trick doesn't work.

caw

Liralen · Apr 28, 2013

You might check here as well, in case you don't get something firsthand from the International section http://www.magictricks.com/magic-glossary.html

Voila looks promising.

girlyswot · Apr 29, 2013

Thanks, everyone, I'll ask in the international section.

There is no actual magic trick in the book, just an English character who says 'use the magic word', meaning 'please', and I'm trying to work out what the Frenchman she's talking to might think the 'magic word' could possibly be.

King Neptune · Apr 29, 2013

girlyswot said:
Thanks, everyone, I'll ask in the international section.

There is no actual magic trick in the book, just an English character who says 'use the magic word', meaning 'please', and I'm trying to work out what the Frenchman she's talking to might think the 'magic word' could possibly be.

Plaisir, Vous me plait beaucoup. Allons; faisons le foutre.

I suppose that some French men might think otherwise, but let's be reasonable, But he wouldn't say that out loud.

mirandashell · Apr 29, 2013

I think the joke is that the Frenchman doesn't know the phrase 'say the magic word' and is puzzled as to why she would ask him to say the French equivalent of 'abracadabra'.

benbenberi · Apr 29, 2013

The French for "abracadabra" is: abracadabra.

girlyswot · Apr 29, 2013

mirandashell said:
I think the joke is that the Frenchman doesn't know the phrase 'say the magic word' and is puzzled as to why she would ask him to say the French equivalent of 'abracadabra'.

Exactly. He doesn't know she means 'please'.

French 'magic word'

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