FabSwingers.com forum: seance

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

sometimes feels like this site is like a seance ? A séance or seance (/'se?.??ns/) is an attempt to communicate with spirits. The word "séance" comes from the French word for "session", from the Old French seoir, "to sit". In French, the word's meaning is quite general: one may, for example, speak of "une séance de cinéma" ("a movie session"). In English, however, the word came to be used specifically for a meeting of people who are gathered to receive messages from ghosts or to listen to a spirit medium discourse with or relay messages from spirits. In modern English usage, participants need not be seated while engaged in a séance.

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have you been talking to a glass of whisky?

By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Interesting - it's great to learn how our language has acquired and shaped words.

As for the seance, I'm skeptical and doubtful that people have any continuation of anything after physical death, other than their body's elements being recycled,

By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"sometimes feels like this site is like a seance ? A séance or seance (/'se?.??ns/) is an attempt to communicate with spirits. The word "séance" comes from the French word for "session", from the Old French seoir, "to sit". In French, the word's meaning is quite general: one may, for example, speak of "une séance de cinéma" ("a movie session"). In English, however, the word came to be used specifically for a meeting of people who are gathered to receive messages from ghosts or to listen to a spirit medium discourse with or relay messages from spirits. In modern English usage, participants need not be seated while engaged in a séance."

I adore the pronounciation of this word....