sauvage

• “By the way, I have to wonder now if my alma mater, Knox College, knew about Ayers 'manifesto 15 years ago when it changed the school mascot from the Siwash (it's supposed to be a racial epithet offensive to native Americans, derived from the French word sauvage - "savage") to the Prairie Fire - the title of Ayers' little book.”

  Weapon of Mass Distraction

• “Note: The word sauvage was meant to denote someone or a group who had not reached the point of civilzation or religion as Europeans.”

  Jeanne Mance

• “But he did understand the word sauvage, having heard it so often in the French fort of Detroit when he went there as a boy with Ta-Kumsaw.”

  Heartfire

• “Angelo Mercado, a doctoral student in Indo-European studies at UCLA, has a blog called sauvage noble "an austronesian's adventures in altertumswissenschaft and indogermanistik" that makes me nostalgic for my graduate days spent rummaging in old books in foreign languages.”

  languagehat.com: SAUVAGE NOBLE.

• “If he'd meant the "wild and untamed" sense of "sauvage" and he was speaking French, and he was speaking French correctly, he would have said "un pays sauvage".”

  calling all anthropologists

• “Mr. Pound has since apologized, making the point that his understanding of the term "sauvage" was deficient.”

  globe and mail readers respond to margaret wente

• “Un article qui montre du doigt un nécessaire changement de mentalité dans les départements IT: nombre des outils que les employés utilisent pour améliorer leur productivité ont en fait été introduits de façon "sauvage".”

  The Shadow IT Department (and Shadow HR) — Climb to the Stars

• “..andy pandy...i didn't expect anyone to 'get it' but "sauvagnon" comes from the french 'sauvage' or wild, if you will...”

  Repentance: Back-Pedaling Under Duress

• “Watching L'Enfant sauvage again, I am still startled by its beauty, its restraint, its presiding clarity.”

  The Guardian: Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood

• “Truffaut's early films manifest L'Enfant sauvage's fascination with motion and stasis.”

  The Guardian: Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood

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