Well micro blogging is not all wasted time, not all shouting into the internet void.
I have been hanging out on Mastodon (see here, and here, and here) - and someone asked how to say slime in French. It was because one of the Mastodon intanse was called slime, and the person wanted to say something like: Long love the Slime in French.
So I asked and some of the many French speaking people on the federation could teel me that there is no noun for slime in French. Here are some of the alternatives:
But even though there is no general noun for slime, there is an adjective for slimy: gluant.
So you can also say substance gluante: slimy substance.
Slime seems to be a Germanic extrapolation of the latin: limus (clay) and exist in German and also in my native tongue, Danish. It was first used in English in 1628. (Merriam-Webster info)
