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Hey, 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!

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Date: 2019-02-09 04:57 am (UTC)
sovay: (I Claudius)
From: [personal profile] sovay
"livid".

Agreed. It's used for corpses and the ill.

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Date: 2019-02-09 08:12 am (UTC)
ljwrites: Spirit leaving body. (gah)
From: [personal profile] ljwrites
I always associated "livid" with being angry?? *searches* Turns out it has an interesting history and multiple meanings!

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Date: 2019-02-09 07:25 pm (UTC)
sovay: (I Claudius)
From: [personal profile] sovay
Turns out it has an interesting history and multiple meanings!

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)
silverflight8: bee on rose  (Default)
From: [personal profile] silverflight8
I've also always associated it with choler - livid with rage. But people go white with anger too.

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