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Did you know 🤔 the honey bee has FIVE eyes, two large compound eyes and three smaller ocelli eyes 👀 in the centre of its head and also honey bees can see in ultraviolet light. 🐝✨

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Ending sentences in prepositions

So in english we can end sentence in prepositions. Whether we should is up for debate but it’s possible.

“He put down the cup he was drinking from”.

That sentence makes sense. You know what information it’s trying to convey even though it ends in a preposition.

The reason some people say it’s not grammatically correct in English is because of Latin. In latin you literally cannot end a sentence in a preposition. It just wouldn’t work and the sentence would make no sense.

Back in the day all the educated folk learned latin, so teachers figured it would be better for them to get used to not ending their sentences in prepositions in english, and the rule stuck.

People who hold to this notion of grammar would say-

“He put down the cup from which he was drinking”.

Now why am I telling you all this?

Because french is like latin. It’s impossible to end a sentence in a preposition in french.

Instead we use dont. Let’s look at our example sentence in French-

Il pose la tasse dont il buvait

See how dont can take the place of “from which”? This isn’t the only use of dont of course but I think it was the one that gave me the most trouble as an fsl learner!

Comment with more example sentences/other weird grammar rules that are hold overs from latin!

[artcupcakes]

So I just fond out that Korkie Kryze is 7 years older than Boba Fett and I don't know what to do with that information. Ahsoka being 3 years older than Boba is also useless knowledge I have

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French Revolutionary Calendar

1 Vendémiare, year one, otherwise known as September 22, 1792, marked the beginning of the French Revolutionary Calendar; which was in use from 15 Vendémiare, year two to 22 Fructidor, year nine (1793-1805).

Today (March 1st, 2020) is 12 Ventôse, year 228.

Mois - Months

Each month lasted 30 days; autumn months ended in -miare, Winter months ended in -ôse, spring months ended in -al, and summer months ended in -idor

Vendémiare- September 22nd - October 21st

   ♥ le vendange- wine harvest

Brumaire- 22nd October - November 20th

    ♥le brume- fog

Frimaire- November 21st - December 20th

    ♥les frimas (m)- wintry weather (old fashioned)

Nivôse- December 21th - January 19th

    ♥ from the latin nivosus for snow (la neige)

Pluviôse- January 20th - February 18th

    ♥la pluie- rain

Ventôse- February 19th - March 20th

    ♥le vent- wind

Germinal- March 21st - April 19th

    ♥la germination- germination

Floréal- April 20th - May 19th

    ♥la fleur

Prairial- May 20th - June 18th

    ♥la prairie- prairie, meadow

Messidor- June 19th - July 18th

    ♥la moisson- wheat harvest

Thermidor- July 19th - August 17th

    ♥from the greek thermos, for hot (chaud)

Fructidor- August 18 - September 16th

    ♥le fruit- fruit

5 days were added at the end of the year, or six every six years

Minutes were 100 seconds, hours were 100 minutes, and days were 10 hours, 0 being midnight, and 5 being noon. Each week, or décade, was ten days long. These days were Primidi, Duodi, Tridi, Quartidi, Quintidi, Sextidi, Septidi, Octidi, Nonidi, and Décadi.

To replace Saint’s days, each day of the year was given the name of a plant, animal, or crop. (my birthday is named after a type of barley). 

It was common practice to name babies after the saint on whose day they were born or baptized before the revolution. (I would be Louise lol)

After the revolution a few people began using the revolutionary calendar to name their kids. Most of these fell out of usage but some still exist to this day. (Amande, Eglantine, Jasmine). Mine would be something like Sucrionne?

I’m making vocab lists for all the months, so expect to see those coming!

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