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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Melange means mix or blend. Melanger is the verb, meaning mixing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just like masala.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah oooh. Didn't see that before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Which is ironic given the very much in your face apology to eugenics.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Paul, Chani and Princess Irulan are a melange-et-tois

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

mélange à trois

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I love it when you talk Harkonnen

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nah Irulan is sitting in the corner on the cuck chairdog

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Omg what is up with the chairdogs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What’s chairdog?

Not much. What’s up with you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

What’s chair with you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I did not have a chairdog pun on my bingo card this week

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what do you mean nobody talks about it? they call it "the spice melange" all the time so even if you have no concept of French you know that it's being called a spice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But without knowledge of French how would you know it's "variety"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

With knowledge of French, I know it’s not variety. I do not mean to shock everyone, but this meme is not correct.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I put pepper on my freedom fries, when I’m feeling adventurous.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Caucasian pepper, BIPOC, or one of those desegregated peppers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The ones that come in the packet at McDonalds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

that shit is the best.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Why does no one talk about this?

Idk, because it's not that interesting

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

omelette du fromage

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

A spice mix is the life.

[–] caseyweederman 4 points 2 months ago

I think about it all the time, actually

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe because it's too obvious?

[+] Lyre -12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dune "cycle"? Is that what people are calling it? Like its an impactful series sure but has Herbert really reached the level of Homer?

Or is there some other reason?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Maybe OP is francophone, in French almost any series of books is called a cycle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah, gate keeping arbitrary terms for a set of books like some are somehow higher quality than others is weird lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Inheritance Cycle uses the same word, and I don't think that has anything to do with "impactfulness." What, to you, does it mean for books to be part of a Cycle? I thought it was another word for "series" tbh

[–] Lyre 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I looked it up, a cycle refers to disconnected body of works that cover the same event such as the siege of Troy. A series refers to a linear body of works that cover different events, such as Dune and most other modern books.

So ya everyone downvoting me is straight up wrong. The op was wrong, and also I was wrong. Go figure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

~~A literary cycle is a group of stories focused on common figures, often (though not necessarily) based on mythical figures or loosely on historical ones.~~

~~From Wikipedia. Generally, a quick search agrees with everyting except "disconnected" which I cant find anywhere as a requirement~~

Actually this was wildly dickish of me. Thank you for sharing what you found. Those are pretty cool definitions, even if they differ from how I'd use the words

[–] Lyre 4 points 2 months ago

Hey no worries dude, thanks for considering how I'd feel.

If it matters, i wasn't trying to be rude on my original comment either. I was genuinely asking the question. Its tough to convey tone online...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I dunno some of the later books are pretty fuckin disconnected lmao. And if the event is "the rise of House Atriedes and the birth of The God Emperor" then yeah it could be a cycle. But yeah I guess series is more accurate.