Ask a foreigner

[Rose White]

had a massive coup de foudre when I was 13 and it was really like I was hitted by happiness

Is it like a crush? For me a crush is painful and I try to avoid them at all costs! But the way you describe coup de foudre sounds exciting, maybe like a prolonged ecstasy?

I think love struck is kind of like feeling overwhelmed with love for someone, like it almost feels out of your control, so kind of like a crush though a crush is often unrequited, or one-sided. Lovestruck can be like couples in their early days, I suppose.

 

[Givrali]

well, I got traumatized very early and I'm autistic on the top of this. When I fall for him just seeing him at the first time, it was like a warm blanket of love just thinking about him. It made me smile, feeling peaceful, dreaming, relief of my daily strong emotionnal pain. By fear of making the feeling go away because I knew (by my poor social skills) that he wouldn't feel the same about me, I just was dreaming without real actual interaction, to not break the feeling of peace

but the coup de foudre was amazing

 

[RainbowSearchParty]

“coup de foudre” means “thunderbolt” and “love at first sight” in French

And coup de cœur means a crush, too, but is also used in a little less dramatic way. At bookstores, for example, you might find staff recommendations labeled "coup de cœur."

 

[Rose White]

Does coup mean something like a strike or punch?

 

[Givrali]

Does coup mean something like a strike or punch?

Not familiar enought with english to know such subtilities. I woud describ it like "suddenly in love for no specific reason". Like a revelation

 

[Rose White]

@Givrali I’m talking about just the word “coup” now—does that mean revelation?

thank you for helping me understand—French is an interesting and beautiful language

 

[RainbowSearchParty]

Coup means hit, yes. Coup de cœur translates directly as « hit of the heart ».

And so coup de foudre would be a « lightning hit » which describes how fast and sudden the love is. (And deadly?)

 

[Rose White]

Interesting @RainbowSearchParty ! Thank you for explaining! So “thunderbolt” is “lightning hit” and “suddenly falling in love”—languages are so fascinating!

 

[Friday]

Not sure what love struck means in english

coup de foudre amoureux

Struck by (a bolt of lightning) love

Thunderstruck, however, means severe surprise. Unable to move. Eyes wide, spine straight, mouth open

I’m talking about just the word “coup” now—does that mean revelation?

Coup de grâce = death blow, final blow, mercy killing

We get our word “Coup” meaning to topple a government in one blow / a single strike/ from the inside, replacing one with the other … from the same root… just eyeballs deep in Shakespearean metaphor.

 

[Teasel]

Anybody heard of the brand Gant? What's your impression of it if so? Am looking at baseball caps and don't want to buy from a brand I know nothing about. Ta

 

[Freddyt]

Anybody heard of the brand Gant? What's your impression of it if so? Am looking at baseball caps and don't want to buy from a brand I know nothing about. Ta

Good quality stuff....

 

[Rose White]

Angry face on my PNW post in the geography thread led me to discover there is something called PNW English which includes the following words in their lexicon: duff, high muckamuck, skookum, spendy, spodie, and tolo.

Spendy makes sense to me but the rest were

Bonus: Apparently Northern Californians are the only people to refer to a couch or sofa as a chesterfield outside of England. Anyone here call a couch a chesterfield?