France in Focus

With the grand kids coming over I thought I’d buy a cricket set on Amazon France. It was described as une chauve-souris et balle

Cruelty in motion.

Seems like an ad for laundry detergent. Not moving much and all dressed in white.

I had to use a translator before I understood the humour. Surely a cricket bat has a correct French term. How else can all the cricket teams in France play the game.

DeepL translates it as une batte de cricket.

Polly wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 2:23 pm DeepL translates it as une batte de cricket.

So does Google translate. But I think Rabbit's translation is much nicer !!

Blaze wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 3:28 pm

Polly wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 2:23 pm DeepL translates it as une batte de cricket.

So does Google translate. But I think Rabbit's translation is much nicer !!

Me too, I think it’s very sweet!