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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys are just learning French I swear

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah désuet and flâneur are as common in French as abandoned and loiterer are in English. I'd say only the first word describes something that there isn't another common word for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I still see them used regularly, it's different than those English words most people don't even know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Langueur is french too no ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is, but I can't say I would use it in everyday conversation like the other two.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

🎵 I'm always blowing bubbles🎵

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I want to be a flâneur when I grow up...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember hearing eudaimonia many years ago and thought that I can't wait for it. I haven't heard it since then and the state of the world reminds me I may never again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Are they good? What tracks do you recommend?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Some of these words might give a better understanding when put into sentences

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know eudaimonia or flaneur, I like these! :D

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I knew flaneur as an adjective in German, for example when you go on a walk through a shopping street, without any intent of shopping you go "flanieren". Just having a walk, looking at stores and people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a french word too, though that usually translates more to loitering

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the bottom two are straight up French words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they have straight up common English versions, abandon and loiterer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So once again French getting used to make shit sound fancier than it is, I'm used to it haha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From a french perspective, it's english once again taking fancy words and pronouncing them like shit :p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, those Germans have a word for everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It appears we took it from French, but we have it nevertheless.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I only know eudaimonia because it's super advanced tech in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, essentially inventing utopia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Languor isn't usually thought of as pleasant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago