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It's a common French word. It's a common Dutch word too. Only we took the little roof off.
Salut Baudelaire.
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"If I was not trying out the part of flâneur I was watching C-SPAN coverage of the impeachment proceedings."
- Joseph O'Neill, Netherland (2008)
also from this novel, and coincidentally: "But the sighting had served as a luxurious instance of the city's ceaseless affirmation of its salvific worth.." (Bran, you might enjoy this book; it's the story of a Dutch ex-pat living in New York City in the aftermath of 9/11. O'Neill was born in Ireland and raised primarily in Holland, and has worked mostly in London and New York.)
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Thanks for the hint, tsuwm. I've read some online revieuws and saw our public library has it. It's on my library list now as it looks pretty  interesting.
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one of those French phrases I've never totally grasped, here used nounily (sure, adjectives and nouns - inseparable)
"I shook [her] hand. "How do you do," I said with as much conventionality as I could muster, as if an ostentatious show of comme il faut might minimize her son's aberrancy and the dark, inordinately troubling gap in my smile and the collapse of law and order betokened by the detectives surrounding us and, this particular slope being a slippery one, the hellishness of the world." O'Neill, ibid
here, correctness in deportment or behavior?
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'correctness in deportment or behavior.'
Here it is means exactly what you say.
Common in French and in Dutch. Correctness in deportment or behaviour.
But both in French and in Dutch it also means correctness, straightforwardness of moral behavior. I often heard it used when French people were discussing some actions or decisions:
"Oui, voilà, mais ce n'est pas tout à fait comme il faut quandmême."
or in Dutch:
"Ja, maar dat is tòch niet helemaal comme il faut."
It may concern little business transactions, social conduct, politics and such.
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"; when we reached the lot John and Luster and Gabe ( the three mules and the horse too ) were still watching the still-swinging side gate through which Boon had just vanished, carrying the pistol in his hand. John and Father looked at eachother for about ten seconds while the whole edifice of entendre-de-noblesse collapsed into dust. Though the noblesse, the oblige, still remained."
Coming close now to the end of 1004 pages Faulkner and this fragment shows some similarity to the nouned "comme il faut" .
Faulkner is a writer I have to keep a dictionary standby for. Not for the dialect parts, which are fine, but for many maybe a bit out of use words; old but new to me. From the parts I read online I saw I will have to do that also for O'Neill. For new new to me words.
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I used the verb spaghettify as the wwftd a while back, but today I read the noun form: Scientists call this process spaghettification. And the black hole, as if in appreciation of the analogy, slurps you down. - Philip Plait Ph.D., Death from the Skies!
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linkFor those who understand. As for me, I'll approach those plates of spaghetti with care from now on and warn the little one to stay away from black holes.
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>noun form
aside: I really blew the opportunity to use the term nounification, in the event.
-joe (at the event horizon) friday
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