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nom de guerre pseudonym to disguise the identity of a leader of a militant group, literally "war name", used in France for "pseudonym". [40] nom de plume a "back-translation" from the English "pen name": author's pseudonym. Although now used in French as well, the term was coined in English by analogy with nom de guerre. nonpareil
A Bescherelle is a French language grammar reference book best known for its verb conjugations volumes. It is named in honour of the 19th-century French lexicographer and grammarian Louis-Nicolas Bescherelle (and perhaps his brother Henri Bescherelle).
Om Nom Stories (often called Om Nom [1]) is a British-Russian web series produced by Zeptolab and Rocket Fox, featuring the character Om Nom from the video game series Cut the Rope. The series revolves around Om Nom's life out of the game, and is based on 4 games in the series: the original , Cut the Rope: Time Travel , Cut the Rope 2 , and Cut ...
Manually coded English (MCE) is the result of language planning efforts in multiple countries, especially the United States in the 1970s. Four systems were developed in attempts to represent spoken English manually; Seeing Essential English (also referred to as Morphemic Signing System (MSS) or SEE-1), [3] Signing Exact English (SEE-2 or SEE), Linguistics of Visual English (LOVE), or Signed ...
What the French call complément d'objet indirect is a complement introduced by an essentially void à or de (at least in the case of a noun) required by some particular, otherwise intransitive, verbs: e.g. Les cambrioleurs ont profité de mon absence 'the robbers took advantage of my absence' — but the essentially synonymous les cambrioleurs ...
The Book of Proper Names [1] (French: Robert des noms propres) is a Belgian novel by Amélie Nothomb. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was first published in 2002. It is a romanticized account of the life of the singer RoBERT , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] whom Nothomb became acquainted with as an avid admirer of her songs.
Monsieur l'Abbé / Mon Père : priests. Dom / Mon Père/Frère : for Benedictine monks. Le Révérend Père / Mon Père : abbots and some other regular clergy. Frère / Mon Frère : regular clergy unless style with Père (the usage changes a lot according to orders and congregations). La Révérende Mère / Ma Mère : abbesses. Sœur / Ma Sœur ...
Kinshasa, DR Congo, birthplace of Gims.. Gandhi Djuna was born on 6 May 1986 in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1997). He comes from a family of musicians: his father Djanana Djuna is the singer of Papa Wemba's Viva La Musica troupe.