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Et tu, {username}?

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    [PokeCommunity.com] Et tu, {username}?
    Et tu ???
    If it's French, it's "Est-tu {username} ?"
    If it's not French, what's the language of this ? (Or the meaning.)
     
    I may not know the language, but it's just one of those cool welcome messages you'll see at the top everytime you browse PC while logged-in. They actually change every time you refresh or enter a new page and some are even references to movies, TV shows and video games (especially Pokemon) for that extra touch.

    You should definitely give credit to those who came up with them, and the admins (duh) for the implementation of it. I think it's a nice feature we have that most other forums don't.

    Edit: Oh wait it's Latin for "And you". Never knew that hahahaha.
     
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    I think it's meant to be "And you, <username>?" instead of "Are you <username>?", so it would be correct in French.
     
    Nathan said:
    If so, the correct meaning would be "Et toi, <username>?"
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    Okay, I believe you're right, not sure about Canadian French, though. I've just googled "Et tu" and I got the latin phrase "Et tu, Brute?" as one of the results, so this welcome message makes more sense now, at least for me.
     
    Oryx said:
    Yeah it's definitely a reference to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Latin, not French.
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    And then all of us who thought it was french facepalmed.

    Wait, that's latin? What does it translate to?

    EDIT: Never mind, it's basically the same thing as the french phrase "Et toi?"/Whatever is french for "And you?".
     
    So it's Latin. Thank you :3 (It's a dead language so I hadn't thought about it x))

    Edit : In French, «And you, Nyanyanya ?» => «Et toi, Nyanyanya ?»
    «And you eat» => «Et tu manges»
     
    Meksal said:
    I always thought it was "you too, <name>?" referring to when Julius Caesar says that before he dies. Apparently he was betrayed by a someone he thought was a friend.
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    Actually it was that he was realizing that if even Brutus was doing it there must have been some merit to the act. It was the last knife to stab him. When he saw Brutus was part of it he said "Et tu, Brute?" Or "you too? Guess I screwed up." And then he died.
     
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