plaisanter

Mais j'ai vite constaté qu'ils ne plaisantaient pas.
But I soon decided that they were not joking.
vous savez, on a parlé, elle et ses amies plaisantaient à mon sujet,
You know, we talked, she laughed at me with her friends,
Ils plaisantaient et riaient de moi et pensaient que je gâchais toute l'expérience.
They joked and laughed at me and thought I was ruining the whole experience.
Seulement, ils ne plaisantaient pas.
Only they weren't joking.
Les délégués eux-mêmes plaisantaient, disant qu'un demi-siècle après la fondation de la première Internationale, il était possible de transporter tous les internationalistes dans quatre voitures.
The delegates themselves joked about the fact that half a century after the founding of the first International, it was still possible to seat all the internationalists in four coaches.
Elles plaisantaient. Elles parlaient de ce qui allait bien, moins bien, de ce qu'elles avaient appris, des techniques à améliorer.
They would swap jokes, they would talk about what was working, what wasn't, what they had learned to do well, what they needed to do better.
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