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Stir things up. Submit a French word. Let’s write a story

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"My torrid night with a Corsican fisherman" (photo of Elle magazine). It is time to stir things up on this blog. What better way than to write a sizzler! Ready? Your job is to submit a French word. My job is to weave a story with your terms (but not on your terms!).

On y va! Let's go! Scroll to the comments link at the end of this post and submit a French word. I will post our story in the next edition. Va-va-voom!

TODAY'S WORD: remuer les choses

        : stir things up, shake things up

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Le génie est l'aptitude de voir les choses invisibles, de remuer les choses intangibles, de peindre les choses qui n'ont pas de traits.
-Joseph Joubert / Pensées

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.  – Joseph Joubert / Thoughts

 
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131 thoughts on “Stir things up. Submit a French word. Let’s write a story”

  8. Le brouillard … when I learned the word, while driving through the windy, foggy roads in the Franche Comte region with a French cardiologist who was hoping to win my heart, I realized that the the view wasn’t the only thing clouded.

  11. I suggest the word “incontournable,” which can have more than one translation, depending on context. It’s the type of word that would fit in a story ou on remue les choses.

  12. Rassurer, 2nd choice: Gentiment
    Some folks are choosing too many strange words😉

  17. One of my favorites: “vasistas”. From the Petit Larousse: Petit vantail mobile pratiqué dans une porte ou une fenêtre. (de l’allemand “Was ist das?”) It’s said that these small windows are common in the upper part of a door in the Alsace region of France, and when you knock on a door in this German-speaking area, someone inside would often open the window a bit and say, “Was ist das?” Hence this became a French word applied to that type of window.
    I can’t believe the number of replies you’re getting!

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