On 05/07/2010 05:44 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > 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.
Fixed price and fixed idea don't mean the same thing in any language I'm familiar with, but I wouldn't want to be obsessive about it.... > 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 > >
