"eccetera, eccetera"...derived from ecceteric...........Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! oops..... et cetera? We need a new "alternate" version of the dictionary Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
We try to pronounce it as the Belgians and French: Eep-re. But English people do not do the French R very well.
Ah, we undoubtedly suffer a genetic normality that results in a dislike of all things continental, especially French. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
..............Especially if we have a French name, like "Farage". Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Is there any reason for this ridiculous sentiment? I would call it a genetic abnormality, if anything. Mandelbrot, Curie, and a host of French scientist have contributed to our science. Well, perhaps that's the reason. We didn't invent those things and that is clearly unacceptable. https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-scientists-from-france/reference
Relax, that was I think just a humorous reference to Brexsh1t. Anyway it doesn't apply to me: I had a French wife (deceased) and have a bilingual son with both nationalities. (I am what Theresa May calls a "citizen of nowhere".). But my French is not very good, even so.
Not necessarily Brexit - just the general fun we poke at the French. I would have thought the wink emoji would have been sufficient to convey that it was not to be taken seriously (so as to avoid Poe's Law). But seems even then things are not so immune. C'est la vie, so to speak. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yes, it seems that we have a set of countries who's population for some strange reason always have been targeted for (bad) humor. I wonder what psychology lies behind this need to put others down or make fun of their customs.
Every country has another they gently mock, usually their nearest neighbour with whom they've had centuries of entanglement. We mock the French and the Irish for example. The other UK countries mock the English. The French mock the Germans, the Scandinavian countries mock each other etc. Harmless teasing. Don't overthink it.
And both the Dutch and the French make fun of the Belgians. Not sure who the Belgians make fun of. Maybe, like the Canadians, they have immunity because they do not take themselves too seriously in the first place - possibly the best defence of all! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I wouldn't say it is common but it is still used. It's one of the many Latin phrases that include, inter alia, such things as non sequitur, a priori, post mortem, ad hoc, bona ride etc.
It's a Latin phrase, and it means "among other things". It is sometimes used in formal writing, particularly legal documents, but other than that it isn't used very often.