OT- Word of the day.

[Iansidious]

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]

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.

[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.

[Iansidious]

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.

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 .

[Iansidious]

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.

How many hours are in a day on CHEESE?

[Atrocities]

New Day, new word..... *****'in I stayed up all night and finished a fourth set for the Tournament. And its a sweet set people.

[Iansidious]

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]

I once had a pet rat named Nihils.

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]

Nihlus (I think that's the correct spelling) is the name of one of the biggest enemy Cybrids in Cyberstorm .

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Iansidious:

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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.

How many hours are in a day on CHEESE?

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Huh?