Melange means mix or blend. Melanger is the verb, meaning mixing.
Just like masala.
Ah oooh. Didn’t see that before.
Depending on the context, mélange can mean variety cf. ‘un mélange de styles’
A mix of styles?
Variété is a French word, meaning variety. If the interpretation used in the screenshot was the intended goal, then that word was available too.
Mélange can sometimes be interpreted as a “variety” in a figurative sense, it doesn’t directly translate to “variety” in the way variété does - there is semantic overlap.
Mixture and variety mean the same thing sometimes.
This is why literature is dying. If it’s not literally, explicitly, no ambiguity at all stated, then it doesn’t exist. Have you never heard of what a pun is? It’s a literal play on words. Twisting them slightly for the sake of a joke.
People can’t understand this and then they jump on Reddit/Lemmy and have “discussions” where they do the same shit and can’t grasp any nuance or thought deeper than surface level.
Melange just straight doesn’t mean variety though
Case in point, apparently
I mean, a it‘s not a play on words because the saying “la melange est la saveur/epice/piquant de la vie” just makes no sense. It’s not that I want things to be literal, it’s just that this particular “play on words” doesn’t even exist.
Do you also hate half rhymes? Words are fuzzy.
Maybe. I do read a lot. I’m so happy for my local library. I just don’t like platitudes.
Why does no one talk about this?
Idk, because it’s not that interesting
Paul, Chani and Princess Irulan are a melange-et-tois
mélange à trois
I love it when you talk Harkonnen
Nah Irulan is sitting in the corner on the cuck chairdog
Omg what is up with the chairdogs
What’s chairdog?
Not much. What’s up with you?
What’s chair with you?
I did not have a chairdog pun on my bingo card this week
omelette du fromage
what do you mean nobody talks about it? they call it “the spice melange” all the time so even if you have no concept of French you know that it’s being called a spice.
But without knowledge of French how would you know it’s “variety”?
With knowledge of French, I know it’s not variety. I do not mean to shock everyone, but this meme is not correct.
Sometimes I put pepper on my freedom fries, when I’m feeling adventurous.
Caucasian pepper, BIPOC, or one of those desegregated peppers?
The ones that come in the packet at McDonalds.
that shit is the best.
A spice mix is the life.
I think about it all the time, actually
Maybe because it’s too obvious?
Dune “cycle”? Is that what people are calling it? Like its an impactful series sure but has Herbert really reached the level of Homer?
Or is there some other reason?
Maybe OP is francophone, in French almost any series of books is called a cycle.
Yeah, gate keeping arbitrary terms for a set of books like some are somehow higher quality than others is weird lol.
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The Inheritance Cycle uses the same word, and I don’t think that has anything to do with “impactfulness.” What, to you, does it mean for books to be part of a Cycle? I thought it was another word for “series” tbh
I looked it up, a cycle refers to disconnected body of works that cover the same event such as the siege of Troy. A series refers to a linear body of works that cover different events, such as Dune and most other modern books.
So ya everyone downvoting me is straight up wrong. The op was wrong, and also I was wrong. Go figure.
A literary cycle is a group of stories focused on common figures, often (though not necessarily) based on mythical figures or loosely on historical ones.From Wikipedia. Generally, a quick search agrees with everyting except “disconnected” which I cant find anywhere as a requirementActually this was wildly dickish of me. Thank you for sharing what you found. Those are pretty cool definitions, even if they differ from how I’d use the words
Hey no worries dude, thanks for considering how I’d feel.
If it matters, i wasn’t trying to be rude on my original comment either. I was genuinely asking the question. Its tough to convey tone online…
I dunno some of the later books are pretty fuckin disconnected lmao. And if the event is “the rise of House Atriedes and the birth of The God Emperor” then yeah it could be a cycle. But yeah I guess series is more accurate.
