nPostednon November 25, 2014
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Blasénmeans unimpressed, indifferent, even apathetic. A teen who has seennseveral amazing shows like Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas might benblasé about a humble circus at a small county fair, and a person whonhas done a lot of dangerous stunts might be blasé about thingsnothers find scary.
Blasénmeans unimpressed, indifferent, even apathetic. A teen who has seennseveral amazing shows like Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas might benblasé about a humble circus at a small county fair, and a person whonhas done a lot of dangerous stunts might be blasé about thingsnothers find scary.n
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nBlasé,nin other words, is often a “been there, done that” kind of thing.
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nIndon’t know how enthusiastic I can be about celebrating indifference!nBut what I do like is a good excuse to study all the French words wenhave adopted into the English language.
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nYounprobably know that many French words have final letters that we donnot pronounce. For example, ballet doesn’t end with a “T” sound,nand the “X” in Sioux doesn’t make a sound, either. Most Frenchnwords that end with vowels have no sound associated with those vowelsn(think of, for example, the “ànla carte”nmenu). But the accent on the word blasé tells us that we DOnpronounce the last letter: blahn– zay.
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nHerenare some more French words that have to do with emotions:
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nennuin– boredom or depression
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nmalaisen– another word for a general sense of depression
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nsombren– dismal, gloomy (now often spelled “somber”)
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nespritnde corps – morale, or feeling of closeness felt by a group
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njoiende vivre – the joy of living
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nrapportn– a feeling of closeness, being “in synch” with someone else
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nHerenare some French words for a variety of not-so-wonderful things younmight want to avoid:
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ngaffen– a mistake
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nclichén– an overused phrase or metaphor
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nhauteurn– arrogance
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nposeurn– a person who pretends to be something he or she is not (now oftennspelled “poser”)
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ncanardn– an untrue rumor
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npastichen– a work that is not original, such as a painting or novel that toonmuch copies the another artist’s piece or another writer’s book
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nsabotagen– destruction of something by an “insider” who wants to weakennan organization or corporation
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nclique – a small social group that is unwelcoming to outsiders
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nOfncourse, there are also a ton of French words used in English in thenworlds of dance, food and culinary arts, fashion, fencing, art, andndiplomacy. I don’t know about you, but I just cannot be blasé aboutnall these interesting French words lurking about in our vocabulary! n
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nInwas interested to note that some of our French-words-in-English arenno longer used by French people. (According to Wikipedia, “artiste”nand “ànla mode” are examples.) And apparentlynsome French-words-in-English were never used by French people, butnonly by the French-and-English speaking upper class in England!n(Again according to Wikipedia, “homage” and “negligee” arenexamples.)
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nAlsonon this date:
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nAnniversarynof the development of cable television
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nIndependencenDay in Suriname
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nEvacuationnDay
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nPlannahead:
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nChecknout my Pinterest boards for:
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nAndnhere are my Pinterest boards for:
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