{"id":1253,"date":"2012-03-26T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:30:34","slug":"fastidieux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Fastidieux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fastidieux, -ieuse<\/span><\/p>\n

Have just winkled out another ‘false friend’. From the context I could tell that ‘fastidieux’ did not mean fastidious. No; it means ‘tedious’ ‘tiresome’ ‘boring’.<\/p>\n

‘Fastidious’ translates as ‘minutieux’ ‘m\u00e9ticuleux’ ‘tatillon’ ‘pointilleux’:<\/span>
\nFastidious work: Le travail minutieux
\nA fastidious person: Une personne m\u00e9ticuleuse
\nA fastidious man: Un homme tatillon
\nA fastidious security guard: Un garde charg\u00e9 de la securit\u00e9 pointilleux<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fastidieux, -ieuse Have just winkled out another ‘false friend’. From the context I could tell that ‘fastidieux’ did not mean fastidious. No; it means ‘tedious’ ‘tiresome’ ‘boring’. ‘Fastidious’ translates as ‘minutieux’ ‘m\u00e9ticuleux’ ‘tatillon’ ‘pointilleux’: Fastidious work: Le travail minutieux A … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[16],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-kd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}