Faux pas is a French word which means words or behaviors that make us look impolite or rude when in fact we did not mean to be impolite or rude. For example: We ask a lady “Oh, when is the baby due?” when the lady is not actually pregnant (怀孕的)— she’s just quite overwei...
At 16, living in Utah, she was kicked off the cheerleading team and out of school for getting pregnant. There followed divorce and years as a single mom (in which she briefly remarried in time to have me, in the Philippines). In Phoenix, where she brought us up, things didn’t slow ...
At 16, living in Utah, she was kicked off the cheerleading team and out of school for getting pregnant. There followed divorce and years as a single mom (in which she briefly remarried in time to have me, in the Philippines). In Phoenix, where she brought us up, things didn’t slow ...
- She is pregnant, not enormous! extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree, The word enormous contains within it, if you look closely, the root norm, as in normal. So what you’re saying when you call something enormous is that it’s beyond what is normal;...
A good summer read for the beach, waiting time in airports or long train journeys. With the titleLongtemps je me suis levé de bonheur, Daniel Picoulymakes a promise that his book doesn’t fulfill. Indeed, it is a play-on-word on the incipit ofSwann’s Wayin French, the famousLongtem...
They looked astonished when I announced I was pregnant. I think astonished would be a more accurate word. / I'm not astonished you're here. / The whole school is astonished at his knowledge and intelligence. / I was astonished by his stupidity. At the same time, it is ironi...
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Paris Metro:not daring to look at each other lest they break some supernatural law. There in the waiting room, I found myself wondering what brought each woman here. Some were obvious—a pregnant belly here, perhaps birth control pills there... and as for we three middle-agednanas:pro...
The French usually consider themselves very different from the English, but when it comes to the word for cookie, both say biscuit. Like a cookie itself, the word can be broken into two parts: bis,a way to say “two” or “twice”, and cuit –“cooked”. This is because, for some...
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