👉 Okay, let’s tackle the wonderfully prickly little francês, the undeniably fabuloussounding… "étatʒé — you probably just saw that oddly hyphened spelling and thought, “What even
is
that thing?”!
Basically, an “Étatʒé" (pronounced roughly as if you were gargling with a bénelly and then trying to politely cough out the secret of French fancy, I'm kidding! It’s pretty straightforward) is a very specific kind of, let's just call it… state. Think of it like the current, intensely-felt condition of something, particularly in the context of older, grand things that have seen a lot . Historically, and here’s this where it gets delightfully weird—it originally came about when describing the condition of a stagecoach during long, arduous journeys. You wouldn't just say, "The coach was having a bad day!" Nope! You'd declare the coach to be in an "étatʒé"—meaning its state of exhaustion, dilapidatedness, and frankly, probably smelling faintly of misery and horse sweat. Now, it evolved! It’s now used for pretty much anything that is past its prime, emotionally or physically – a vintage bottle of champagne with a very pronounced “je sui—we’e been here a while-ness", the last respectable waistcoat you see in your grandfather's attic, a political movement that has absolutely tanked and whose adherents are
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