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Que signifie "non si non la" ?
"Non si non la" est une des devises de Maurice Scève, qui semblent être volontairement énigmatiques.
J'ai trouvé ceci dans les notes de l'introduction du livre "Délie, Object de Plus ...
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Que signifie "non si non la" ?
"Not here not there".
Supposedly "punningly captures man's ever restless Faustian drive to be "not here not there", but rather always on the move, always elsewhere."
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Que signifie "non si non la" ?
Je vais dire le translation en anglais (Je parle anglais) My answer; "No here if no there".
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Why does Flaubert use “prendre dans”?
If I can hazard a guess, it's English's bias towards specificity in preposition choice that prompted your question. It's also what makes it somewhat irrelevant.
In French,
You don't always need to ...
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Why does Flaubert use “prendre dans”?
The tournure "prendre dans" is definitely ordinary, here meaning "from the inside" or "out of". It's the normal way of saying it, and as a native speaker, I even had ...
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Why does Flaubert use “prendre dans”?
Does "dans" often mean "from inside"?
It doesn't, neither from Flaubert or any dialect. Dans just means that the handkerchief was located inside the toque. There is no need to ...
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