I'm thinking about getting a french edition of isolt, and i have some questions:
how necessary are the footnotes? Which edition would you say has the best ones?
is the pleiade (either 1954 or 1989) edition a good pick for a first time reader of proust?
I have my phone language set to french and in the weather app I saw the phrase "violent orage". Why is the adjective placed before the noun? I know the BAGS "rule", but i don't think it applies here? Is it a set expression?
I'm studying french with anki. Usually I just add an unfamiliar word to my deck and review it immediately. I think because of this the cards are considered easy and the intervals grow too fast. Should I just increase the desired retention?
According to wikipedia the "o" sound in russian is different from the "o" sound in belarusian and ukrainian (most russian speakers use the mid back rounded vowel, and ukranians and belarusians use the open-mid back rounded vowel). I'm Belarusian but this is the first time I've learned of this difference. How do you classify something like that, since it's basically a spectrum? Do you compare sounds between different languages? To me the open-mid, mid and close-mid vowels sound almost identical. Is this just a case of phonological deafness?
This is the page for the French word chienlit, which does mean shit-in-bed, but was originally used as an insult or a name for a specific carnival costume, not a custom.
Surprisingly, this vandalism/blunder is almost 20 years old!
(My info is from wiktionary, so I'm sorry if some of it is wrong) Words like venin, comté, nom, used to have m instead of n and vice versa. essaim comes from latin examen. Is it just an arbitrary spelling change since these letters are not pronounced? Or is there a deeper reason.