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

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      Depending on the context, mélange can mean variety cf. ‘un mélange de styles’

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        A mix of styles?

        Variété is a French word, meaning variety. If the interpretation used in the screenshot was the intended goal, then that word was available too.

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          Mélange can sometimes be interpreted as a “variety” in a figurative sense, it doesn’t directly translate to “variety” in the way variété does - there is semantic overlap.

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          This is why literature is dying. If it’s not literally, explicitly, no ambiguity at all stated, then it doesn’t exist. Have you never heard of what a pun is? It’s a literal play on words. Twisting them slightly for the sake of a joke.

          People can’t understand this and then they jump on Reddit/Lemmy and have “discussions” where they do the same shit and can’t grasp any nuance or thought deeper than surface level.

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                I mean, a it‘s not a play on words because the saying “la melange est la saveur/epice/piquant de la vie” just makes no sense. It’s not that I want things to be literal, it’s just that this particular “play on words” doesn’t even exist.

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            Maybe. I do read a lot. I’m so happy for my local library. I just don’t like platitudes.