Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-80.223.134.237-20141016022818/@comment-139.124.5.230-20151125161840

Being french myself, I know Connerie has a wide range of meanings that cannot be reduced to its vulgar and insulting one. Most of its meanings are just popular or familiar. Connerie is insulting and vulgar when it define a character trait about people. For foolish acts or foolish statements, it's just familiar and used daily.


 * Vulgar and insulting:  "This guy will always stay in his unfathomable connerie". (a mix of stupidity, stubbornness and malevolence).


 * Familiar and daily used:  "A lot of conneries are written about this topic by self-appointed experts" (misinformed statements). "I can't find my backup file, I think I made a connerie when I clicked this ok button" (action with unintended unhappy consequence). "If the neighbors don't stop their mess quickly, I think i'm going to make a connerie" (action with predictably unhappy consequences). "He did jail time but he stopped his conneries at the birth of his first child" (delinquent activities). "A connerie happened to me yesterday" (unhappy event).

Now, Jean Connerie is not a parody of James Bond. He is a parody of agent OSS 117 Hubert Bonisseur de la Bathplayed by Jean Dujardin, who is in turn a french parody of James Bond. That is, he is a parody of a parody. (And if James Bond is thought as a parody of a spy, then he is a parody of a parody of a parody :o)) In this movie, OSS 177 is depicted as a stupid and colonial racist who says a lot of conneries, most of them being racist cliches about germans, arabs, muslims, etc. Hence the name Jean Connerie.