  Bvos Member Username: Bvos Post Number: 1406 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.238.170.39 |
Apparently there is a name for Lowell, AIW and the rest of us who wander around the city looking at buildings, people watching, creating weblogs, etc. It's called a Flaneur in France. Very interesting article: http://www.maisonneuve.org/ind ex.php?&page_id=12&article_id= 2193 | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2359 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.212.30.207 |
No American equivalent to flaneur? Mon Dieu ... okay, here goes: flan is like pudding ... so ... Puddists? (Plus people who explore on line rather than in the flesh could be called: Pudd pullers ...) | ||
Outoftowner Member Username: Outoftowner Post Number: 126 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.223.214.2 |
It's nice to finally have a name for this affliction, even if it is French. I am a flaneur. I even did it in Paris a few months ago, but didn't know it. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5478 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.156.93.207 |
Great link, thanks Bvos. In fact I was flanning today... | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1061 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.41.40.152 |
I'm not sure that this is good word to be using in a forum; the two "n"s together look like an "m". Not that there's anything wrong with that.  | ||
Put_in_bay Member Username: Put_in_bay Post Number: 7 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 75.10.17.8 |
My Dad and I were frequent flâneurs. We traded sitings often. I miss conversations with him about our city. ps, I don't like most flan. | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 715 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.30.175 |
in new york city, they're called victums. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2507 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.210.27 |
Deed jou say flâneur? I theenk flâneurs are bumbs. Oui! Bumbs. | ||
Downtown_dave Member Username: Downtown_dave Post Number: 67 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 63.77.247.130 |
I have been "bumb"ing around downtown and looking at all the buildings since 1978, when my first Detroit job landed me inside Greektown's Trappers Alley. (At that time, some of the fur tanning equipment was still there!) So it's nice to know there's a high-falutin' name for all this gawking. Leave it to the French to flaut flâneurs! And for all of us who love doing it and do it obsessively -- publicly on DetroitYes -- is there an AA equivalent for our behavior? :-) "Hello. My name is Dave. I'm a flâneur..." | ||
Detroitduo Member Username: Detroitduo Post Number: 595 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 194.138.39.52 |
Flaneur... not be be confused with FLAMER, which is what ILD is.... | ||
Leidio Member Username: Leidio Post Number: 7 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 128.103.174.50 |
'flaneur' is not a new word, and to call those interested in cities in the sense of "who wander around the city looking at buildings, people watching, creating weblogs, etc." is incorrect by inference. | ||
Downtown_dave Member Username: Downtown_dave Post Number: 71 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 63.77.247.130 |
My Webster's New Collegiate sums it up this way: flaneur - an aimless person, man-about-town, an intellectual trifler. You can learn a lot by wandering aimlessly around the town - or lingering here with other intellectual triflers... :-) |
