lapsus


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lapsus

(ˈlæpsəs)
n, pl -sus
formal a lapse or error
[from Latin: lapse]
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Internally, whether in the globe or animal body, it is a moist thick lobe, a word especially applicable to the liver and lungs and the leaves of fat (jnai, labor, lapsus, to flow or slip downward, a lapsing; jiais, globus, lobe, globe; also lap, flap, and many other words); externally a dry thin leaf, even as the f and v are a pressed and dried b.
Elles partagent un moment amusant ou les rires fusent au moindre lapsus ou a l'evocation de savoureux souvenirs.
En Amerique par exemple, on a Coppola ou Scorsese qui ne sont pas d'origine americaine mais qui sont americains a part entiere.Ici, il y a Rochdi Zem qui est marocain d'origine mais qui a eu un lapsus revelateur lors d'hommage qu'on lui a consacre a Marrakech en disant [beaucoup moins que] le pays de mes parents[beaucoup plus grand que] chose qui reste discutable parce qu'il doit de la reconnaissance a ses parents marocains et le pays qui lui rend hommage d'un cote, mais de l'autre on ne peut pas lui en vouloir s'il ne se sent pas marocain.
With no keyboards they're not quite what we expect: imagine bis produced by Phil Spector, with Adam & The Antsstyle percussion by Iain from prog-punks Lapsus Linguae.
Who, having once seen Ontani's photographic portrayal of Leda being ravished by the swan in one of the 24 Ore (24 Hours), 1975, or as the mother wolf (a transformation effected by just a skin draped over the crouching artist's back) preparing to give suck to a multiracial Romulus and Remus in Lapsus Lupus, 1992, could forget them?