Danke schön!
;-)
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Le 17 févr. 2015 à 16:42, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> The dictionary that pops up when I highlight a word on my Mac says for dank:
>
> dank |daNGk| adjective
> disagreeably damp, musty, and typically cold.
> DERIVATIVES
> dankly adverb.
> dankness noun
> ORIGIN Middle English: probably ofScandinavian origin and related to
> Swedishdank ‘marshy spot.’
> I tend to think of some basements as being dank. Seldom, if ever, have I used
> the word as a direct description of weather. In days gone by during my
> youthful explorations of the mountains of Western North Carolina, I might
> have escaped a maddening and ongoing drizzle by ducking into a natural rock
> shelter. The shelter might be dank, musty, etc., but not the weather outside
> it. Hope this is slightly clearer than mud. I do think that if I saw the
> above mentioned adverb— dankly—I might collapse with laughter, which, I
> suspect, would not be what the writer intended.
> But then I’m not sure I would have subtracted points from a pupil’s paper for
> using it as your daughter did. Instead, I might have written a note in the
> margin explaining distinctions as I understood them.
> —Bob Whitmire
>
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