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For Fournel, there was nothing lazy in flânerie. It was, rather, a way of understanding the rich variety of the city landscape; it was like "a mobile and passionate photograph" ("un daguerréotype mobile et passioné") of urban experience. [6] With Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Man of the Crowd", the flâneur entered the literary scene.
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.
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.
Laissez-faire (/ ˌ l ɛ s eɪ ˈ f ɛər / LESS-ay-FAIR, from French: laissez faire [lɛse fɛːʁ] ⓘ, lit. ' let do ') is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies or regulations).
In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property. outré out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary ...
Too long; didn't read (abbreviated TL;DR and tl;dr) is a shorthand to indicate that a passage is too long to invest the time to digest it. [2] Akin to Wall of text.Please don't assume that editors who link to this essay are being overly critical, they are just conveying that they did not read a talk page or content post, and are alerting the writer that the intended information did not reach them.
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 ...
Miss Late finally gets a job as a housemaid for Mr. Lazy, because Mr. Lazy does things at the wrong time. Little Miss Late has been published under the alternative titles of Madame En Retard (French), Doña Tardona (Spanish), Unsere Uschi Unpünktlich (German), Mevrouwtje Te Laat (Dutch), Η Κυρία Αργοπορίδου (Greek), Chídào ...