Thank you for these details. I love your name - so many possibilities (Reply #9)

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Sun Nov 28, 2021, 04:31 PM

erronis (10,920 posts)

9. Thank you for these details. I love your name - so many possibilities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pucelle

Frequently the french slang gets translated into something that the english recognize (and versa-vica). I still think "shampooing" and "flirting" are great examples of language police going bad.

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10 replies	Author	Time	Post
Josephine Baker, 1st Black woman honored in French Pantheon [View all]	Omaha Steve	Nov 2021	OP
Seven Surprising Things You Probably Didn't Know about Josephine Baker	lapucelle	Nov 2021	#1
Thank you for this post.	DURHAM D	Nov 2021	#4
Thank you for this wonderful information about this	niyad	Nov 2021	#5
What a life...man....	bahboo	Nov 2021	#8
Gee, didn't take too long at all!	malthaussen	Nov 2021	#2
It's a BFD.	lapucelle	Nov 2021	#6
Thank you for these details. I love your name - so many possibilities	erronis	Nov 2021	#9
Wonderful!	IrishAfricanAmerican	Nov 2021	#3
Congrats to her	BumRushDaShow	Nov 2021	#7
When we were in Spain we had	burrowowl	Nov 2021	#10

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