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A comment on Tintin, Hergé and Chang – A Friendship That Changed the World. Parent comment

Re:Tintin, Hergé and Chang – A Friendship That Changed the W... by schoen on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:33PM (#36475454)
English does have the loanword https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/id%C3%A9e_fixe#English but I think this is often considered technical vocabulary (per Wiktionary, in psychology and music composition) that most native speakers would probably not recognize.
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Re:Tintin, Hergé and Chang – A Friendship That Changed the W... by poizan42 on Monday June 26, 2023 @10:43AM (#36480250)
I meant that idea and fixed are both English words, so it should be possible to associate ideafix with "fixed idea" - a bit more obscure though than the original.
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