Timeline for How could I say "Okay? What's your point?" in French?
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| Jul 9, 2023 at 16:51 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | How about «et après»? | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 16:17 | comment | added | Aaron | No thank you, that's perfect ! :) | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 15:52 | comment | added | Marc Glisse | Nice suggestion, @Aaron. Let me know if you put it in your own answer and I'll remove that paragraph. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 15:51 | history | edited | Marc Glisse | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 15:39 | comment | added | Aaron | I feel like using ",et donc?" instead of ", et alors?" is at the same time close enough and different enough to avoid the subtext of "why should I care?" while keeping the meaning of "could you elaborate?". That said I'm not sure this is what OP is looking for, after all "What's your point?" can also be interpreted as dismissal in English. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 8:21 | comment | added | Marc Glisse | @Kaiido I updated my answer to mention this (I had purposefully left it out originally, but changed my mind after reading the discussion). Let me know if you write it as your own answer, I'll drop that paragraph. It seems similar to traktor's answer, but more modern / different region. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 8:15 | history | edited | Marc Glisse | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 2:37 | comment | added | Kaiido | @Thélée_Lavoie that completly depends on the intonation used. You may make an "Et alors ?" sounds very much interested as in "hurry up, tell me what happens next", and indeed you can also make it sound like a bored "So what?". Still, most of the times I I heard the full "où tu veux en venir" were either from people used to speak in English in their every-day life, or from drama translators. I believe we usually leave it implied. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 0:22 | comment | added | Kaiido | I feel "et alors ?" is the most natural equivalent for the whole idiom. | |
| Jan 17, 2021 at 19:49 | history | edited | Marc Glisse | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2021 at 19:45 | history | answered | Marc Glisse | CC BY-SA 4.0 |