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Uncovering an Aesthetics of Naval War Literature Workshop 16 September 2022, University of Leuven (Belgium) Humankind has always been drawn to the oceans: to the

" Qu’est-ce qu’on fait en France pour Noël ?: = What do they do in France for Christmas? On = il or elle (he or she) not so common, but used kind of like some people talk about themselves at the 3rd person… It’s wrong, but it’s done. " On = tu (you one person) A way to mock someone, to burn someone… Difficult to explain without a full context… " Often, you won’t even hear the “on” The most difficult thing about “ on” is that it’s almost silent… It can be so diffi...

atterrissage to any neologism. In 2012, LAcadémie ruled that the term atterrissage, which is sometimes assumed to reference planet Earth, in fact refers to the element earth - and as such does not have its root in a proper noun. As such, atterrissage is defined as the act of landing on ground - in which case, the location of the landing ground in question - Mars or Terran - is unimportant. The Académie des Sciences, meanwhile, "does not recognise the term amarsissage," for the specific act...