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  2. Laziness - Wikipedia

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    The opposite of laziness is Jihad al-Nafs, i.e. the struggle against the self, against one's own ego. Among the five pillars of Islam, praying five times a day and fasting during Ramaḍān are part of actions against laziness.

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a class of women of ill repute; a fringe group or subculture. Fell out of use in the French language in the 19th century. Frenchmen still use une demi-mondaine to qualify a woman that lives (exclusively or partially) off the commerce of her charms but in a high-life style. double entendre

  4. The Right to Be Lazy - Wikipedia

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    The Right to Be Lazy (French: Le Droit à la paresse) is a book by Paul Lafargue, published in 1883. In it, Lafargue, a French socialist, opposes the labour movement 's fight to expand wage labour rather than abolish or at least limit it.

  5. Lenition - Wikipedia

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    An example of diachronic lenition can be found in the Romance languages, where the /t/ of Latin patrem ("father", accusative) has become /d/ in Italian (an irregular change; compare saeta "silk" > seta) and Spanish padre (the latter weakened synchronically /d/ → ), while in Catalan pare, French père and Portuguese pai historical /t/ has ...

  6. Lazy loading - Wikipedia

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    Lazy loading (also known as asynchronous loading) is a technique used in computer programming, especially web design and web development, to defer initialization of an object until it is needed. It can contribute to efficiency in the program's operation if properly and appropriately used.

  7. Lazy evaluation - Wikipedia

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    In programming language theory, lazy evaluation, or call-by-need, [1] is an evaluation strategy which delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed (non-strict evaluation) and which avoids repeated evaluations (by the use of sharing).

  8. Linguistic purism - Wikipedia

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    In one common case, two closely related languages or language varieties are in direct competition, one weaker, the other stronger. Speakers of the stronger language may characterize the weaker language as a "dialect" of the strong language, with the implication that it has no independent existence. In response, defenders of the other language ...

  9. Stereotypes of French people - Wikipedia

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    Stereotypes of French people include real or imagined characteristics of the French people used by people who see the French people as a single and homogeneous group. [1] [2] [3] French stereotypes are common beliefs among those expressing anti-French sentiment. There exist stereotypes of French people amongst themselves depending on the region ...