True...

Melange means mix or blend. Melanger is the verb, meaning mixing.

Just like masala.
- Ah oooh. Didn't see that before.
Which is ironic given the very much in your face apology to eugenics.
Depending on the context, mélange can mean variety cf. 'un mélange de styles'
- A mix of styles?
  
  Variété is a French word, meaning variety. If the interpretation used in the screenshot was the intended goal, then that word was available too.

Paul, Chani and Princess Irulan are a melange-et-tois

mélange à trois
- I love it when you talk Harkonnen
Nah Irulan is sitting in the corner on the cuck chairdog
- Omg what is up with the chairdogs
- I did not have a chairdog pun on my bingo card this week

what do you mean nobody talks about it? they call it "the spice melange" all the time so even if you have no concept of French you know that it's being called a spice.

But without knowledge of French how would you know it's "variety"?
- With knowledge of French, I know it’s not variety. I do not mean to shock everyone, but this meme is not correct.
- Sometimes I put pepper on my freedom fries, when I’m feeling adventurous.

Why does no one talk about this?

Idk, because it's not that interesting

omelette du fromage

A spice mix is the life.

I think about it all the time, actually

Maybe because it's too obvious?

Dune "cycle"? Is that what people are calling it? Like its an impactful series sure but has Herbert really reached the level of Homer?

Or is there some other reason?

Maybe OP is francophone, in French almost any series of books is called a cycle.
- Yeah, gate keeping arbitrary terms for a set of books like some are somehow higher quality than others is weird lol.
- I looked it up, a cycle refers to disconnected body of works that cover the same event such as the siege of Troy. A series refers to a linear body of works that cover different events, such as Dune and most other modern books.
  
  So ya everyone downvoting me is straight up wrong. The op was wrong, and also I was wrong. Go figure.
The Inheritance Cycle uses the same word, and I don't think that has anything to do with "impactfulness." What, to you, does it mean for books to be part of a Cycle? I thought it was another word for "series" tbh
- I looked it up, a cycle refers to disconnected body of works that cover the same event such as the siege of Troy. A series refers to a linear body of works that cover different events, such as Dune and most other modern books.
  
  So ya everyone downvoting me is straight up wrong. The op was wrong, and also I was wrong. Go figure.