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5) What were you doing at 11pm last night?

Skyping Wei and getting salty with student accommodation stuff

11) You can only drink one liquid for the rest of your life - what is it?

Earl Grey Tea tbh

62) Who do you text the most?

Either you or Wei lmao

Wow, go you ^^

Essentially, it’s an alternate conjugation from “pouvoir”. 

As far as I can tell, in the past you could say either “je peux” or “je puis”. “Je puis” is a higher level and more literary usage, so it doesn’t surprise me that you’d see it in Baudelaire haha. You’re unlikely to really see it nowadays. It’s still used in the inverted question form, eg “je peux” because “puis-je..?” but even then that’s already very high level and it would be so much more natural to just say “est-ce que je peux..?” I remember I used it once when I moved to France the first time back in 2012 and the woman I was working with kinda laughed (not meanly) and said it was weird and no one would really say “puis-je” or “dois-je” (which I’d also said a few times haha).

You can still see related forms in the subjunctive “que je puisse” btw.

The internet tells me that you will sometimes see “puis” being used following “si”, for stylistic effect - so like “si je puis me permettre..” for which I guess the closest English equivalent would be along the lines of “If I may be so bold..” but I really don’t think that’s common. I dunno. Any Francophones want to chip in? :P

15 it is then! :)

15: Write a short introduction of yourself in a language other than English.

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Much baby

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Djaq was always so fab. Definitely a role model