The most beautiful word in the French language
{coquelicot} noun | poppy (flower) bright red (color) Rouge comme un coquelicot. To be as red as a beet (from shame, bashfulness, or confusion). Etymology | Variant of old French coquerico (“cock”), from similarity to a rooster’s crest. Pronunciation [kohk-li-koh] (Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coquelicot) _______________________ Very simply, the French word coquelicot means “poppy” (the flower) or “poppy red” […]
French quotes | Ce qu’ils disent
“Le langage reproduit le monde, mais en le soumettant à son organisation propre.” (Language reproduces the world, but in doing so organizes the world like language.) | Émile BENVENISTE, Problèmes de linguistique générale This quote intrigues me to the core. Émile Benveniste (May 1902 – October 1976), a French structural linguist and semiotician (someone who […]
Found in translation | flâner
{flâner} verb | to stroll, to saunter to wander, to roam A Paris, j’aime flâner le long des quais. In Paris, I like to stroll along the banks of the Seine. to laze, to idle to laze about, to lounge about Je profite du dimanche matin pour flâner. I take advantage of Sunday mornings to […]
mind your monde 