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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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Mixture and variety mean the same thing sometimes.

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

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Melange just straight doesn’t mean variety though

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Case in point, apparently

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