Glossary of French expressions in English in the original language, to the extent that they would not be understood (either at all, or in the intended sense) by a native French speaker. c'est la guerre: "That's war!", or... c'est la vie: "That's life!" or "Such is life!" Through the evolution of the language, many words and phrases are no longer used in modern French. Also there are expressions that, even though grammatically correct, do not have the same meaning in French as the English words derived from them. Some older word usages still appear in Quebec French. International authorities have adopted a number of words and
Referring expression generation a distinguishing description if the following two conditions hold: In other words, to generate a referring expression one is looking for a set of properties that apply to the referent but not to the distractors. The problem could be easily solved by conjoining all the properties of the referent which often leads to long descriptions violating the second Gricean Maxim of Quantity. Another approach would be to find the shortest distinguishing description like the Full Brevity algorithm does. Yet in practice it is most common to instead include the condition that referring expressions produced by an algorithm should be as