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SomeMichGuy · M
No. No one else is having an experience so common that we've UNcharacteristically adopted a French phrase to express it.
@SomeMichGuy perhaps some people have french lineage and that would not be an odd word to describe the experience of feeling like some event has recurred.
SomeMichGuy · M
@pentagrammom I have French lineage, studied French, and grew up speaking English, a language in which 60% of the 1000 most-common words come from French due to a Norman deciding to assert his claim to the throne of England six hundred years before the great Fire of London.
But I was writing in English and as an American, and it IS uncharacteristic for us to adopt French phrases.
But I was writing in English and as an American, and it IS uncharacteristic for us to adopt French phrases.
@SomeMichGuy thank you for your take on the subject and sharing your experience, I respect the amount of thought put into your response, would you hapoen to have a more appropriste word that is more coisely related to standard english?
SomeMichGuy · M
@pentagrammom lol That wasn't the point.
My point was that this is soooo common that we even use a borrowed phrase
My point was that this is soooo common that we even use a borrowed phrase
Indeed, unexplained recurrence of events seems a bit wordy and may have miissed the mark on the level the question could be accurately answered