"We Americans are casual about such things.........Hey, it sounds the same to us."
Hey, I think I get it now, you mean like "fusion" and "fission"? :-) GB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jed Rothwell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Shanahan paper and Krivit's response 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
