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Feb. 9th, 2019 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dhampyresaHey, how come English doesn't have a worn meaning "unhealthily pale, most probably because of exsanguination"?
MORE IMPORTANTLY why doesn't French have a word for "confusing"?!Mais que fait l'Académie!
MORE IMPORTANTLY why doesn't French have a word for "confusing"?!
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Date: 2019-02-09 04:57 am (UTC)Agreed. It's used for corpses and the ill.
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Date: 2019-02-09 08:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-02-09 07:25 pm (UTC)Interesting! I have encountered it in the sense of anger, but always with the image of pallor, never the 180-flip idea of flushing with rage.
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Date: 2019-02-09 11:19 pm (UTC)