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Watching Mom grow more and more tired by the day, and after the disheartening news from insurance, I could not wait one more minute for word from insurance confirming her coverage. I called my sister Heidi and it was easily decided: Mom would go into the hospital on Monday! We would stic...
The word ordinateur for computer was however not created by the Académie, but by a linguist appointed by IBM (see ). From the 17th to the 19th centuries, French was the lingua franca of educated Europe, especially with regards to the arts and literature, and monarchs such as Frederick II...
It was a society that had existed for over twenty one years, and was now world famous, despite the small number of works and artists. “What’s your name? Do you live here?” The old man asked, his beard nodding vigorously with each word. “I’m Stephane,” the young man replied,...
My daughter's concern throws me back in time to when I used to stroll her, as a six-month-old, through the village of St. Maximin. "Are you hungry?" I would say if she cried, or "You seem a little tired." Occasionally a French neighbor would intervene. ...
Mom has already done the impossible (by reaching for those chestnut curls! I can't believe she ran her fingers through the pharmacist's hair, as a mother would her own daughter!). "Mom, the French are..." (and here I pause to find the correct word...) "...the French are a lit...
Langue d'Oc, the language where one says oc for "yes", is those dialects in the south of France and northern Spain (Ibero-Romance dialects) which remained closer to the original Latin, like Gascon and Provençal, etc. Romance languages outside of France derive their word for "yes" fro...
After peut-être, sans doute, and the exclamative combien, you need either inversion or the word que.Peut-être avez-vous sommeil. Peut-être que vous avez sommeil. Perhaps you’re tired. Sans doute ont-ils oublié. Sans doute qu’ils ont oublié. Of course they’ve forgotten. Combien d...
On this, l’anniversaireofFrench Word-A-Day,I’d like to express my heartfelt gratitude.Merci beaucoup,dear reader, for lining up outside my door, like the most faithful trick-or-treater, waiting to see what goodies are in store for you today. I wouldn’t be here, all dressed up in...
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