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Sharp Cheese
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dwayne Roberts Dec 15, 2016. 2 Replies 0 Likes
My dictionary hasn't been very helpful. I want to describe a cheddar as "sharp". I see an entry "âcre", but I doubt that's what I'm looking for. Can some sharp cheddar lover help me?Continue
Bare-naked nouns
Started this discussion. Last reply by Yeli May 8, 2016. 17 Replies 0 Likes
Not as risqué a question as one might first think.Il ne faut pas confondre vitesse et précipitation. In American English, this would often be translated as "Haste makes waste". My question isn't…Continue
Illeism
Started this discussion. Last reply by Stevo May 17, 2016. 7 Replies 0 Likes
This interrogator wonders whether the translation of the English word "illeism" is "l'illeisme". He has done multiple searches of online and print dictionaries to no avail. Similarly, he supposes…Continue
Vous n'avez pas un renne à traire ?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dwayne Roberts Oct 14, 2015. 6 Replies 1 Like
Is "Vous n'avez pas un renne à traire ?" idiomatic? It's such a weird question, it seems it must be so. But I don't find anything about it in a web search. Perhaps it's not an idiom and is just…Continue
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EducatorGeorge Hunt replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Sharp Cheese
"I see "piquant" can work
http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/fromage+piquant.html
but I am not sure if it the only ,or best way to express the idea of "sharp".
"relevé " can…"
Dwayne Roberts posted a discussionSharp Cheese
My dictionary hasn't been very helpful. I want to describe a cheddar as "sharp". I see an entry "âcre", but I doubt that's what I'm looking for. Can some sharp cheddar lover help me?See More
Dwayne Roberts replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Illeism"A very handsome man. Reminds me somewhat of Johnny Depp."
Stevo replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Illeism"Re bonjour Dwayne.
A bit of French culture : Alain Delon is an old and a very famous French actor, and he is also known for his habit to speak sometime about himself according to the position of the third person. Nowadays, Alain Delon is yet…"
Dwayne Roberts replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Illeism"I have a rather brilliant friend, engineer who thinks in illeism. “Now Rudy's going to move this up here, and he'll then be able to remove this.” It's as if he's watching a movie of his life, viewing…"
Stevo replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Illeism"Hi George and dwayne.« Illeism » hasn't an explicit equivalent in French. Also myself, I would say in French « Illeisme », but it seems that is not correct.The French expression closer to « Illeism » seems to…"
Yeli replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Bare-naked nouns"Yes "parler a propos des couleurs"sounds better to me but I understand the idea now. Thanks George."
Yeli replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Bare-naked nouns"Yes "parler a propos des couleurs"sounds better to me but I understand the idea now. Thanks George."
Robert replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Bare-naked nouns"No, not like that. It is meant to bring up a point of view as opposed to some other points of view. Just like this in English: So now you want to be friends or you want to talk money?"
Robert replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Bare-naked nouns"In this case "couleurs" is a topic or a point raised. So one does not , or not yet, concern oneself with any specific colors. You might say similarly: parler arts, parler politique, parler prix des vins ...
The English for that should be…"
EducatorGeorge Hunt replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Bare-naked nouns
"Well you can also say "parler a propos des couleurs" .
I have never heard the expression "parler couleurs" but someone ,at some stage has obviously thought it "worked",
"parler politique" is an…"
Yeli replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Bare-naked nouns"I found this sentence in a text I am translating. I wonder why they didn't use an article for"couleurs"
...Et quand on commence à parler couleurs, les risques de tomber dans le mauvais goût sont…"
Robert replied to Dwayne Roberts's discussion Bare-naked nouns"Here is something about The in English (particularly the last post).
http://www.waywordradio.org/discussion/topics/highways/
It should bear some relevance to French, whether to suggest similarity or else raise the question 'why…"
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