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Lost in Translation Eighty Nine

April 16, 2013
08:05 AM

“Juste”.

This is an interesting word which , I think, says a lot about the French.

The dictionaries define it as meaning ,” accurate”, ” just right” but in practice the French use it as something which is just a little too small, tight or mean and therefore just not appropriate.
To say that something is “un peu juste ” in reality means that it must be discarded and the next size up substituted.

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