Here are a few interesting French expressions I discovered this week:<\/p>\n
– le tapis roulant \u00e0 bagages<\/strong> = luggage\/baggage carousel, or literally a “rolling carpet for baggage” – shame it isn’t a tapis volant<\/em> (flying carpet)! <\/p>\n What do you call the conveyer belt thing that where you (hope to) retrieve your bags after a flight?<\/p>\n – le\/la bagagiste<\/strong> = baggage handler – sounds like someone who really doesn’t like baggage. Maybe the reason why the French bagagistes<\/em> seem to be on strike so frequently is that they can only bring themselves to handle baggage for limited periods.<\/p>\n – la hantise de la page blanche<\/strong> = writer’s block, or literally “obsessive fear of the white\/blank page” – a good way to describe the condition. L’hantise<\/em> comes from hanter<\/em> (to haunt), from the Old Norse heimta<\/em> (to bring home). The haunted meaning possibly came from English during the 19th century period of Anglomania. or from the Norman words hant\u00e9<\/em> (visited by ghosts, haunted) and hant<\/em> (ghost) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n Do you ever suffer from writer’s block \/ fear of the blank page? If you do, how do you overcome it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are a few interesting French expressions I discovered this week: – le tapis roulant \u00e0 bagages = luggage\/baggage carousel, or literally a “rolling carpet for baggage” – shame it isn’t a tapis volant (flying carpet)! What do you call the conveyer belt thing that where you (hope to) retrieve your bags after a flight? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}