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Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French

Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron · 2010 · 308 pages

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Derek Sivers liked it
The absolute best book I've ever found on explaining the mindset of a country. (Runner-up is “Watching the English” by Kate Fox.) I wish every country had a book this deep. Not just what but why! Also appreciate the bold writing, skipping caveats.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.