Every morning, Nicolas Turon pays tribute to his department with a funny, tender and knowing text, in the form of a declaration of love for the Moselle. He chooses an emblem belonging to history or current events and treats it in an offbeat way.
As the poorly greased switch sends the train towards a surprise destination, it happens that a regional particularism deviates the adjective from its semantic trajectory.
Thus, the qualifier “cool”, which is never literally anything other than cold which has not had the courage to follow through on its vocation, and which traditionally qualifies, as desired, the depths of the air or the roach, is experiencing, these days, a second youth and new meanings.
Contemporary usage indeed dictates that someone fresh or fresh is someone cute or cute. The epithet sounds like a compliment, opening wide the doors of flattery to refresh the self-esteem of an individual who wears good looks. But be careful, “fresh” is not BG, it is “simply” beautiful; with him, nature prevails, at the same time as the heart of the suitor who compliments him.
The “she’s fresh” used by teenagers and young adults comes from an American slang word, “fresh”, carrying the same meaning, and which was transported to the old continent thanks to the verses of female rappers and rappers.
Here comes the bifurcation: if you add a “c” to the heart of “fresh” thus creating the very Germanizing “sch”, you will obtain the Alsatian “fresch”, which literally means “to be cheeky”. The Lorraine has appropriated the term to transform it into an exclamation of spite, even disdain. In the 80s and 90s, “it’s fresh!” » said of someone that he was of no use, that his reaction to a situation was lame, or worse, that he was a big drag…
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