{"id":43338,"date":"2022-03-29T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43338"},"modified":"2022-03-29T00:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T00:04:22","slug":"french-djeuner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-djeuner\/","title":{"rendered":"French: d&eacute;jeuner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a question.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI was taught, as a kid, that &#8220;d\u00e9jeuner&#8221; means lunch, while &#8220;petit-d\u00e9jeuner&#8221; means breakfast. However, whenever I mention &#8220;d\u00e9jeuner&#8221; as lunch, I&#8217;m corrected: &#8220;Lunch is d&icirc;ner,&#8221; I&#8217;m told. Who is right?<\/p>\n<p>\nWell, apparently &#8220;d\u00e9jeuner&#8221; was <em>meant<\/em> to mean breakfast, but the language evolved so that &#8220;d\u00e9jeuner&#8221; means lunch, to a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=16132556#:~:text=world%20only%20...-,In%20French%2C%20dejeuner%2C%20meaning%20literally%20breakfast%2C%20used%20to%20mean,dejeuner%27%20to%20name%20the%20breakfast.\">ycombinator.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a question. I was taught, as a kid, that &#8220;d\u00e9jeuner&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-djeuner\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French: d&eacute;jeuner<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43338"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43349,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43338\/revisions\/43349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}