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[graceful vale]

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[languid solar]

i think it should be "autant pour moi"

litteraly "as much for me"

cause "au temps" means "to the time of" or somekind

[median shoal]

Yes. It comes from the military, whenever a soldier makes a mistake in their movements they shout "Au temps !" since they weren't in time

"Autant pour moi" is a typo, but it's become so common it might as well be correct

[languid solar]

wow putain je ne savais pas mais oui il a raison, au temps pour moi = my mistake, autant pour moi = same thing as me

[median shoal]

haha j'hésite toujours entre les deux

[languid solar]

tu viens de m'apprendre un truc

je suis choqué 😂

[night mesa]

on m'a déjà corrigé pour avoir écrit au temps pour moi

[languid solar]

franchement ça me choque pas parce que je crois que je ne l'ai jamais vu écrit comme ça

[heady knoll]

Not really a typo, both forms are attested with different justifications behind them, and both are used. For the most part, "au temps" is only considered "more correct" because l'Académie says so.

[median shoal]

ah so it's just l'académie being weird.

the military story might be a myth too:

[knotty dawn]

what about haut temps pour moi

[atomic cave]

i recommend using chatgpt, chatgpt is less literal in the sense that it gives you all the different ways of saying things depending on context and also you can use chatgpt call-mode to have a 1-on-1 conversation with it and you don’t get embarrassed for messing up

[knotty dawn]

;chatgpt