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Iansidious July 15th, 2004 10:30 PM
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Alneyan, I want to ask you something. I rememered you live in France. I heard of a word(it was someones Last name but it has a meaning also)that mean the "sneaky one" in French. Lellouche. I was wonder about this word because I can't find it in my dictionary. I do belive that is the correct spelling.

Alneyan July 16th, 2004 09:12 AM
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Indeed, it is either "Lellouche" or "Lelouche" (both spellings are used for Last names as far as I know, with perhahs "Lelouche" being more common). And "Le louche" would mean something along the lines of someone being shady or suspicious, or a behaviour having this characteristic. So if you see someone acting sneakily, you could see it is indeed "louche" (with the French meaning of this word).

I think "louche", when used in English, has a somewhat different meaning though. Or rather, my dictionary gives "of questionable taste and morality" as a definition. But then, I should beware of French adjectives used in English; while "risqué" (or risque without this accent) means "risky" in French, saying that something or someone is risque in English doesn't quite have the same meaning. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

narf poit chez BOOM July 16th, 2004 09:17 AM
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It's a new day over here, so: Destructive Distillation: The distillation of organic substances, as wood and coal, in such a way as to decompose them chemically: also called dry distillation.

Des-ue-tude: A condition of disuse.

Iansidious July 16th, 2004 03:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Alneyan:
Indeed, it is either "Lellouche" or "Lelouche" (both spellings are used for Last names as far as I know, with perhahs "Lelouche" being more common). And "Le louche" would mean something along the lines of someone being shady or suspicious, or a behaviour having this characteristic. So if you see someone acting sneakily, you could see it is indeed "louche" (with the French meaning of this word).

I think "louche", when used in English, has a somewhat different meaning though. Or rather, my dictionary gives "of questionable taste and morality" as a definition. But then, I should beware of French adjectives used in English; while "risqué" (or risque without this accent) means "risky" in French, saying that something or someone is risque in English doesn't quite have the same meaning. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thank You. Thank You. You are right about LOUCHE it's means "disreputable or of doubtful morality". Well, I can't use quite like I wanted too. You French get all the cool words http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif .

Iansidious July 16th, 2004 03:10 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
It's a new day over here, so: Destructive Distillation: The distillation of organic substances, as wood and coal, in such a way as to decompose them chemically: also called dry distillation.

Des-ue-tude: A condition of disuse.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">How many hours are in a day on CHEESE? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Atrocities July 16th, 2004 03:40 PM
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New Day, new word..... *****'in http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I stayed up all night and finished a fourth set for the Tournament. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif And its a sweet set people.

Iansidious July 16th, 2004 05:56 PM
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Today's Word:

Nihilism (nia lizzem)
This word has a least four meanings but I will list the one that fits Se4 nicely.

belief in destruction of authority: the belief that all established authority is corrupt and must be destroyed in order to rebuild a just society

spoon July 16th, 2004 07:05 PM
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I once had a pet rat named Nihils. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Though I now forget if I named him after the crush-the-state brand of nihilism or the there-is-no-reality brand of nihilism.

Slynky July 16th, 2004 07:17 PM
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Nihlus (I think that's the correct spelling) is the name of one of the biggest enemy Cybrids in Cyberstorm http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif .

narf poit chez BOOM July 16th, 2004 10:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Iansidious:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
It's a new day over here, so: Destructive Distillation: The distillation of organic substances, as wood and coal, in such a way as to decompose them chemically: also called dry distillation.

Des-ue-tude: A condition of disuse.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">How many hours are in a day on CHEESE? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Huh?


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