Michel Jullian wrote:
. . .an idée fixe (French,
> meaning "a complete meal of several courses, sometimes with choices
> permitted, offered by a restaurant at a fixed price").
Only in US French then!
Yes, that probably is a U.S. construct, but
actually I borrowed the definition for prix fixe.
I assume it means something like idée fixe. Close
enough. We Americans are casual about such
things. In Japanese we don't bother to
distinguish between banzai and bonsai, and you
can always call a jouro a jorou. Hey, it sounds the same to us.
- Jed
