#daily french word

[daily-french-words]

nébuleux : adj. obscurci par des nuages ou du brouillard.

- ex : Le ciel est nébuleux ce soir. - 3/10 - cloudy : covered with clouds - Can also be said of something that lacks clarity, especially in the literary world. - Borrowed from the Latin form nebulosus, lit. "where there is fog", "like a cloud" and "difficult to understand"

[minimalist-quotes]

Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it.

French proverb

[amourfae]

— Psyché, Molière

[youngchesstheorist]

Some people go to work/school and speak a language and then go back to their place and speak THE SAME LANGUAGE with their SO/parents/roommates and then they go online AND ITS THE SAME FUCKING LANGUAGE AGAIN like??? Don't you guys get bored???

[itwoodbeprefect]

on a deep & fundamental level i don't think whoever decided to allow a maximum of four language settings on my phone's android keyboard understands me. why not five. why not six. why not..... ten

[longagoitwastuesday]

Going through the Utahim.e tag had me checking several times if at some point I had clicked on the G.ojo/Utahim.e one instead

[troublesome-poet]

"It is nineteenth century up to date with a vengeance."

Wow. Every time I read this specific moment of Dracula I'm always shook.

"It is nineteenth century up to date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill."

[paradoxi-kay]

negotiation | visual prison, hyde/dimitri/ange

"Why exactly are you here?" Hyde asks.

Perpetually frozen on the threshold of adulthood, Ange doesn't look so very different than when he first arrived in Harajuku and upended the lives of every vampire he came across - present company most certainly included. But that little lost dhampir would never have met Hyde's eyes and answered his question with such confidence as Ange does now.

"I want to be hurt more than Guil enjoys hurting me."

On the sofa to Hyde's right, Dimitri leans in, elbows on his knees, his interest piqued. "A splendid answer. But tell us - just how does Guil enjoy hurting you?"

"To give us some idea of what you're used to," Hyde clarifies on his behalf. But Ange's already nodding his understanding.

"Just spanking, with his hands. Hard - but no toys or anything."

"You do understand," Hyde says, "that impact play can be a great deal more intense - and more painful - than spanking."

Ange nods again, without so much as a flicker of hesitation. He leans in towards them, subconsciously mirroring Dimitri's posture. "I do. I'm not... I don't know exactly where my limits are? But I'm not going to find out with Guil. And I'm curious."

Now that is a splendid answer, and one that arouses Hyde's curiosity as well. It's been a very long time since Hyde's played with someone as young and inexperienced as Ange, but then, it's been just as long since he's had someone with this much promise to play with...

Dimitri's laughter brings him back out of his thoughts. "I think you've caught Hyde's attention, little pup."

Hyde considers Ange for a moment - compares the performer he's come to know well with the boy sitting here now, eager and earnest, and by all indications more than up for a challenge. In this new, more intimate context, Dimitri's little pet name makes him flush, fingers curling around the edge of his seat as he tries not to squirm. Yes, he certainly has caught Hyde's attention. The question is, does he know what to do with it?

"Unless Guil has changed a great deal since we parted ways, I assume you take a more dominant role with him?" Ange's cheeks flush hotter, but he nods. "Does submission appeal to you at all?"

"Yeah. It does." He swallows hard - looks away for just a moment, collecting his thoughts. "I do like being in charge of Guil. But seeing how calm he gets, how... safe he feels, when he submits to me - I can definitely see the appeal. I think I'd like that a lot."

When Hyde glances to Dimitri, he finds Dimitri looking back, no doubt thinking the same thing; why don't we find out? Ange might not know just what he likes, yet, but he clearly knows what he's asking for, what he's getting himself into. Though really, that should come as no surprise; Guil never would have handed him over had he not been sure Ange could meet Dimitri and, especially, Hyde's high expectations.

"Would you like to play with us tonight?" Dimitri asks.

"Yes," Ange says.

"I intend to hurt you tonight," Hyde says. "More than Guil has hurt you. But while I may very well encounter your limits, I would take no pleasure in surpassing them. If anything either of us does to you is too much - if you want to stop for any reason at all, even momentarily - you need only say so. Do you understand?"

"I understand."

"What an obedient little puppy," Dimitri coos, and the way Ange shivers, suddenly unable to meet either of their eyes, suggests they'll have a very pleasant evening indeed.

[coquelicoq]

i've always loved the oxford comma, but reading maupassant is making me appreciate the lack of it for the first time. it adds this really simple ambiguity that doesn't actually affect meaning in any way, just cadence. and i think perhaps this would only work in french and not english, because i'm thinking specifically of when he uses it in the construction "[nom] [adj], [adj] et [adj]". because adjectives come before the noun in english, you would either have to say "[adj] [noun], [adj] and [adj]" or put all the adjectives at the beginning; there isn't a single way to achieve both at once. but the french construction, without the serial comma, allows you to read it either way. again, it doesn't affect meaning - however you read it, all the adjectives are modifying the same noun. it's just a question of where you put the stress in the sentence.

[daily-french-words]

accalmie : nf. moment de calme temporaire après de l'agitation.

ex : Nous profitons de l'accalmie entre les deux batailles.

2/10

lull : a temporary interval of quiet or lack of activity.

Is often used in a sailing context, and would then refer to the calm between two big gusts of wind!

[moinsbienquekaworu]

that was so thorough thank you so much, I really appreciate it!! I'm a follower but I am,,, shy so I tend to send anons. I just saw you speak French a while ago and was like :0 perhaps you could answer my question!! it took me weeks to build up the courage to ask. I was worried it may be rude to ask you when I could look it up myself, but I thought it might be good to get a native speaker's opinion. but I am very glad I did because that bescherelle website looks like a great resource!!

I hope you have a wonderful day 💛💛💛💛

I'm so glad I could help!! Feel free to come back if you have more questions, anon or not. Maybe if I explain the rules of French enough I'll actually have more than a vibes-based understanding of it.

The book version of the Bescherelle is a required purchase for all middle schoolers in France, you spend a few weeks learning irregular verbs and their most obscure conjugations. The website just lets you enter any verb and see it all conjugated for you, which is much easier than picking up the little book, look for your verb in the alphabetically ordered list of most verbs in the french language, and then seeing which page of the like 100+ different patterns for conjugations your one verb belongs to. There's a few really big groups that all work according to the same easy pattern, and then there's little groups of a few verbs, all subtly different in which vowel becomes which, and then you have to replace the example verb with the one you were looking up. A whole thing. I'm old enough that none of my teachers told us to look up the website, which I'm assuming they must do for kids nowadays. (that was a tangent but I'm assuming you know how I am haha)

I'm about to go to sleep (soon-ish), I hope you have a great day! (and night)

[girlpetrarca]

Mom speaks in a weird botched English that she mixes with Italian & dialect and no one understands her. I speak fairly decent English and yet here no one, no one understands me, and they all look at me like I'm a fucking madman for attempting to ask information about a camping site, like oh I'm sorry if we've been driving around for six hours and we haven't seen a shower in two days we just need a place for the night

[schmem14]

Lilies

@sapphicmicrofics​​​​​​

Pairing: Luna Lovegood/Lily Luna Potter Rating: M WC: 50

*****

“Paint me, please, Luna?” Lily asks.  Forbidden fruit.  That’s what she is, earth-brown eyes warm and irresistible. Luna frames the portrait in her mind, fingers itching for paintbrushes.  A bed of white lilies ensconcing the prettiest of them, splayed with only coppery strands to hide her nakedness.  “Alright,” she agrees. 

[istoppedlurkingforthis]

I don't want to engage with the terf blog. I don't want to engage with the terf blog. I know that my argument shows just how bad faith their chosen argument is. But it is not worth it. Whatever. You will never see this random french terf person because I'm about to block your account, but what you're such a language purist that you never use loan words? That's the proof your going to show that gender issues don't exist in the french psyche? Really? You've never said "football" or "foot" or "parking" or "job" or any of the other English words that have crept into every day French? To the point I got startled when I visited home a few years back and a schoolfriend was telling me all about her "job" instead of her "boulot"?

You don't ever greet people by saying "ciao" like a good two thirds of my school did a decade and a half ago? Do you never say "bye"?

Did you never get asked to do a bit of "baby-sitting" for your neighbours? I sure did.

There are probably more, but I don't spend much time talking in French to people-who-aren't-my-family so I'm not up to date with which English language words are now in everyday use in French language conversations in non franco-british french speakers. The fact that people use terf, and say "fuck terfs" instead of "allez vous faire foutre, feministe radicale excluant les personnes trans" is because as a rule if there's a shorter way of saying something people will, and everyone knows what fuck and terf means. And similarly people use queer or genderqueer or whichever other term you object too without finding or creating a french equivalent or translating it literally is not proof of some stupid always-online american issue taking over France.

It's proof that people do what they've always done: they use loan words and then those become the word used even when a pre-existing word exists in that language do.

[waywithworse]

Honestly I’m trying to learn at least a little portugese on duolingo because I think it would be cool to see what brazilian qsmp fans are saying without a translator... I’m already a little there because a decent amount of words carry over from spanish (highlight of today was translating a word from portugese to spanish easily but then having to remember what that word meant in english which was. harder than it should have been.) I don’t really have any hope in being able to watch streams just because I barely watch english streams as-is and carving out time to watch them in a different language just seems hard, but i figure if I can at least read it decently it would already be so cool!!

[undeadunhingedchaos]

Poilifier = Hairify ???