Talk:rax

Hello, in french
beware, "s'étendre" is a "faux ami" (false friend) : we use it for something which spreads away (for ex.: "la garrigue s'étend de Nîmes à Nice" (the garrigue = mediterranean brush) -or to mean "to lay down" , as in "la femme de Putiphar demanda à Joseph de s'étendre à côté d'elle".

- For "to rax" as "stretching one's limbs", we don't use "s'étendre" , but "s'étirer" , as in : "Au réveil, elle s'étire en baillant" ("When waking up, she stretches out her limbs and yawns"). Note that the spanish has for it an interesting "desperezarse" (put away one's lazyness).

- A funny french expression : "tendre la perche à quelqu'un" = to help somebody in a predicament (as a rescuer stretches out a pole to a drowning man). Ex. : "Teacher lui tend la perche by adding Diocletian had actually something to do with Christians, but he goes on speaking about Rome's foundation".

- "Etymology unknown" ? : my Webster's Dico. says p. 1887 that "rax" comes from the scot.

T.y. Arapaima 07:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

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-- Andrew Krizhanovsky 06:37, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * "Brava !!!" (it) :-)) T.y. Arapaima 08:33, 5 May 2010 (UTC)