Sans (without) anybody use this word?

[OutHouse]

for some reason my co-worker started using this word in speech and in email and i find it annoying and silly. just curious anybody else use this word to sound cool?

 

[master_shake_]

thought it was a french word?

 

[brianmanahan]

i use it every few weeks, not counting when i talk about sans serif fonts

it's kind of a fun word

 

[TwiceOver]

I'm sans sans.

 

[Carson Dyle]

No, but it's never struck me as pretentious, either.

I do notice, though, that more and more people today talk as though they never got past 5th grade, and then they seem genuinely put off when someone uses a word they don't understand.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Yes. But I'm a pretentious dickweed and my vocabulary is bigger than yours.

 

[zCypher]

It is a French word. I live in Montréal, Québec and am bilingual surrounded by bilingual and multilingual people and I never hear English-speaking people using "sans" like that. haha.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Is your co-worker young and likely to play quirky hipster video games?

 

[Imp]

Sin salsa.

No quiero salsa.

 

[TheVrolok]

It is a French word. I live in Montréal, Québec and am bilingual surrounded by bilingual and multilingual people and I never hear English-speaking people using "sans" like that. haha.

It's also a middle English word (and in that case pronounced "sanz."). I use it without rarity, perhaps because I also speak Spanish with some regularity and have also gotten used to using "sin."

I'll pronounce it with either the French or English pronunciation depending on context.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I use it without rarity

???

 

[Red Squirrel]

Only if I'm speaking in French. Would be weird to use it while speaking English. Then again when speaking in French we tend to use lot of English words too so guess it's same idea.

Though I find some people use French words just to try to sound all fancy.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I encourage people to erxpand their vocabulary. Just the other day, I had to explain to a couple youts what a waif was.

 

[brianmanahan]

I do notice, though, that more and more people today talk as though they never got past 5th grade, and then they seem genuinely put off when someone uses a word they don't understand.

i've also noticed that they try to compensate for this lack of vocabulary in other ways, such as buying luxury vehicles

 

[Imp]

Only if I'm speaking in French. Would be weird to use it while speaking English. Then again when speaking in French we tend to use lot of English words too so guess it's same idea.

Though I find some people use French words just to try to sound all fancy.

Do you speak Arcadian French or Franglish?

 

[lxskllr]

I use it on occasion. Written more than spoken.

 

[brianmanahan]

Only if I'm speaking in French. Would be weird to use it while speaking English. Then again when speaking in French we tend to use lot of English words too so guess it's same idea.

i thought only the quebecois spoke french

 

[edro]

Hell no. Sounds like a hipster trend.

 

[BoomerD]

I encourage people to erxpand their vocabulary. Just the other day, I had to explain to a couple youts what a waif was.

Dlid yous also assplain what was a mook? (I hates the mooks)

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Dlid yous also assplain what was a mook? (I hates the mooks)

Shaddap ya freakin jamoke!

 

[SparkyJJO]

Sans Serif

 

[zCypher]

It's also a middle English word (and in that case pronounced "sanz."). I use it without rarity, perhaps because I also speak Spanish with some regularity and have also gotten used to using "sin."

I'll pronounce it with either the French or English pronunciation depending on context.

Interesting perspective. Sans sarcasm!

 

[zCypher]

i thought only the quebecois spoke french

lol! That is far from being true, but quebec probably does have the largest concentration of french speaking canadians.

 

[mnewsham]

I use it occasionally, but only when it is contextually appropriate. Anyone using it regularly enough for me to take note of it I would think is a bit pretentious.

 

[brianmanahan]

lol! That is far from being true, but quebec probably does have the largest concentration of french speaking canadians.

it always seemed less efficient to have 2 official languages

so many translations!

im like %75 german but everyone stopped speaking german within one generation of coming to the US. didn't teach it to the kids.