Somehow I ended up in Paris. I even like it. But it’s sometimes counter-intuitive…
The abbreviations UE and EU always screw me up here.
As we all know, EU is the European Union. Except that here it’s Union Européenne or UE. And EU might actually be États-Unis, or United States. So I actually use US for … uh… the US, and UE for the European Union, since it’s hard to confuse that with something else…
It seems Josephine Baker will be interred in the Pantheon!
P.S. I think they added the accent to the ‘e’ in her name here in France 😉
This doesn’t seem quite right to me…
inédit = unprecedented
WordReference tells me that the translation of the French word entrepreneur to English is “to undertake” (as in “to set about doing”).
So, to avoid confusing, foreign words, in English we should be calling an entrepreneur an “undertaker”.
When use Google to translate “They want to impeach the president.” from English to French, I get “Ils veulent destituer le président.” which sounds to me something like “They want to destitute the president.” But it is what the media are using for the Trump discussion. It sounded sort of funny to me (like they want to sue him and make him poor or something).
So I looked “destituer” up on Wordreference. There is a connotation of “dismiss”; like they want to “dismiss” the president. But I thought it was funny that the first definition given is actually something like “depose”, as in what you would do with a dictator. I have to say that I think this changes the impression French people have about this process..
Funny French translation of the day…
drugs = stupéfiants
Funny French translation of the day:
la Saint-Sylvestre = New Year’s Eve