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Salwa Al Neimi. Salwa Al Neimi, also Salwa al-Nuʿaymī (Arabic: سلوى النعيمي) is a Syrian writer, poet and journalist living in France.Originally from Damascus, she is known for her outspoken views on topics which are taboo in the Muslim world, particularly female sexuality.
The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce.The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera ...
The equivalent of the English portmanteau word is un mot-valise (lit. "word-suitcase"). potpourri medley, mixture; French write it pot-pourri, literally 'rotten pot': primarily a pot in which different kinds of flowers or spices are put to dry for years for the scent. précis a concise summary.
1990 : Publication of the ODS 1, replacing the Petit Larousse Illustré (PLI), used as a reference by players until then.; 1994 : Publication of the ODS 2, with 1500 new entries, correcting the few mistakes and omissions of the previous version.
A calque / k æ l k / or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") translation. This list contains examples of calques in various languages.
However, French words that end in a e muet (such as femme) and words that end in a pronounced consonant (such as flic) gain the sound once reversed. In addition, verlan often drops the final vowel sound after the word is inverted, so femme and flic become meuf ( [mœf] – meufa in full form) and keuf ( [kœf] – keufli in full form ...
The highest scoring word (known as the top) is announced and placed on the display board by the arbiter, and the players do the same. At the end of the game, the arbiter announces the top - the total score of all the moves, which is the theoretical high score which cannot be beaten.
I love you but I'm leaving Vous n'aurez plus d'enfant: You won't have a child anymore Ce soir [as of] Tonight Je n' m'enfuis pas je vole: I'm not running away, I'm flying [away] Comprenez bien je vole: Understand [me] well, I'm flying [away] Sans fumée sans alcool: Without smoking nor drinking [i.e without getting high or drunk] Je vole je vole