Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches
@Praxiteles wrote:
What about the “piece” bit?
There are more things on heaven and earth, Horatio
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The common or garden meanings of piece are indeed ‘coin’ and ‘room’. But would you insist on translating piece de resistance as ‘the currency of liberated France’ or ‘a room that an estate agent would find difficult to let’?
Piece can mean ‘bit’ or even ‘piece’. For example when your absinthe friend, Armand, wakes up he will probably exclaim “Je suis en pieces!”
or as my friend Bertie says ‘Jaysus, I’m in bits’
But what I had in mind when looking at Armand’s curiously tilted photographs was piece in the sense of an amateur theatrical performance.
Incidentally when I read your postings the phrase “c’est forgé de pieces” somehow comes to mind.
