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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”

  3. I vote for “oiseau” (all 5 vowels, only one consonant!) Bonne chance…

  4. I like the word “tulle” because it makes me picture a ballet dancer,

  5. OUISTITI, i love saying that to get people to smile for the camera!!!! Bon chance!

  13. Our dear Kristi,
    Oh!My goodness!What a challenge ahead of you!
    But know without doubt,you will make a fantastic job of this!
    I submit troisiemme agee!(guess who???? 🙂
    Love
    Natalia xo

  16. Cuisse de nymphe emue
    ( the name of an old rose, Puritanically translated as Maiden’s Blush)

  32. Pleuvoir ou n’importe quel tense–présent, imparfait, futur, passé,
    etc. Chapeau!

  36. Kristi Darling,
    I am overwhelmed at the task ahead of you…I am so impressed that you have come up with
    this great idea to stretch your imagination and move on towards that novel we are all
    secretly hoping that you will one day write.
    Shalimar is the word closest to me that I can remember I would have associated with France. I first found out France existed as a impressionable 10 year old. I am still floating in a cloud of Shalimar 60 years later. I can’t wait to read your story. XOXO Mom

  37. “Savoir Faire” An old joke spoke of three Frenchmen who were discussing who had more Savoir Faire when finding their lover with another (so to speak). Could be the start of a fun little piece.
    Sounds like our Friend Kristin has a bit of writers block – we all hope it will not last.

  38. Et peut-etre la génie est aussi l’aptitude de trouver signification en néant?
    pamplemoussier

  43. Ananas, dear…even if there’s only one… Bloody French language! 😉

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