Des verbes nouvelles

[muckefuck]

apaiser
bander
clavarder
chômer
combler
cumuler
entamer
jumeler
marteler
octroyer
rassurer
saluer
tondre

Comments

[eyeballmassage.livejournal.com]

i didn't even realize bander had a non-sexual meaning

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Hah! Would you have used *bandager?

[eyeballmassage.livejournal.com]

i probably would have said something like "mettre un plaster" or "un pansement" if i was feeling proper. i miss how at my old work i had one coworker who was really fun and laid-back who said things like "plaster" and "balayeuse" where my uptight no-fun coworker said "pansement" and "aspirateur"

[eyeballmassage.livejournal.com]

this is in quebec, by the way

[nodeli.com (from livejournal.com)]

Is it just my imagination, or can you say something like "mettre un bando" in QC too?

[eyeballmassage.livejournal.com]

i've never heard it, and it doesn't sound very QC to me, but i'm also not a native speaker so i could be wrong!

[nodeli.com (from livejournal.com)]

Hmm. More likely, I'm importing from somewhere. That said, I'm often surprised at how a Montrealism will sound atypical for Québécois.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

! I spend quite a bit of time reading about the Octroi of the VOC - its document of establishment. I've also run across martelen and marteling in Dutch as punishment or torture, which made me wonder if the word "martinet" came from the same root at all.
...but when I tried to look that up my free dictionary site redirected me to google ads for match.com that said "Meet Naughty Girls - Free.
1,409 Bad Girls are within your Area. Easy & Free to Join!" so I didn't feel like carrying on.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Supposedly martinet comes from the name of the eponymous 17th century Inspector General of France ("one of the first great drill masters of modern times" according to the Key of All Knowledge). Martelen and marteler both share a root in Middle French martel "hammer" (a corruption of Latin martulus "idem."). But there the resemblance ends, since the extended meaning of the French verb (and the usage in which I first encountred the term) is "to pound [home]", e.g. marteler le message.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

d'oh. I actually knew that, but had forgotten. Thanks.
Any thoughts on structuralism?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I'm perfectly content with my inner structuralist, so I'm not exactly one to look to to ferret it out of your thesis.