[GuB-42]

> > Mathématiquement, un cocu est un entier qui partage sa moitié avec un tiers.

> "Mathematically, a cuckold is a whole who shares his half with a third [party]."

In French "moitié", which means "half", is also slang for "spouse" (or girlfriend, significant other, etc... you get the idea). "tiers" indeed means "third" or "third party".

"entier" means "integer" in a mathematical sense, but more generally, it means "whole", and by extension, "uncastrated".

So "un entier qui partage sa moitié avec un tiers" can be loosely translated as "an (uncastrated) man who shares his girlfriend with a third party" in addition to the mathematical meaning of "an integer that shares its half with a third".

[HeckFeck]

This is hilarious. I wonder if every language can be as playful as this. Or I am simply oblivious to it in English.