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Those blasé French

I was using the word blasé in a bit of writing today, and I immediately began to wonder whether there was a non-French synonym I could use. The first candidate that came to mind was nonchalant. Also French. Ditto insouciant. What is it with these French, anyway? Why does a language with so few words have so many words for being half-assed?