Talk:ménage à moi
Add topicLatest comment: 3 years ago by Lingo Bingo Dingo
@Lingo Bingo Dingo: I've never heard that in French, and I don't know how I would insert it in a sentence. PUC – 18:20, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
- @PUC There are a few hits for google books:"mon ménage à moi", often probably with a different meaning or perhaps due to scan errors.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 18:24, 5 June 2021 (UTC)- @Lingo Bingo Dingo: Yes, of course, but these are literal uses: "my own household" or "my own cleaning". And those uses are precisely the reason why I have trouble imagining ménage à moi being used as a single syntactic unit with an idiomatic sense. That said, I've found something. I only have access to a small preview, though, so I can't judge. PUC – 18:35, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
- @PUC Right. Do you think that the French literal use should be mentioned in the etymology as a possible influence?
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 09:59, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- @PUC Right. Do you think that the French literal use should be mentioned in the etymology as a possible influence?
- @Lingo Bingo Dingo: Yes, of course, but these are literal uses: "my own household" or "my own cleaning". And those uses are precisely the reason why I have trouble imagining ménage à moi being used as a single syntactic unit with an idiomatic sense. That said, I've found something. I only have access to a small preview, though, so I can't judge. PUC – 18:35, 5 June 2021 (UTC)