>
> Hey, some of us out there read French, so I have no objection to a
> little French on the list (though not all the time since this an
> English speakers' list), not to mention the fact that MF was French and
> wrote in French and as we know, some expressions and phrases, whether by
> MF or not), are untranslatable into English.
>
Don't misunderstand: I appreciated the French quotes also--
once or twice--and the Spanish one.
Darlene Sybert
http://www.missouri.edu/~c557506/index.htl
University of Missouri at Columbia, English Dept
Office: 6 Tate Hall Tu-Th 1:30-3:30 or by appt
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At a lecture on linguistics, the speaker suggested there was no such thing
as a double positive, whereby two affirmatives resulted in a negative.
Someone from the audience called out "Yeah, right!" -Electronic AIR Nwslttr
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> Hey, some of us out there read French, so I have no objection to a
> little French on the list (though not all the time since this an
> English speakers' list), not to mention the fact that MF was French and
> wrote in French and as we know, some expressions and phrases, whether by
> MF or not), are untranslatable into English.
>
Don't misunderstand: I appreciated the French quotes also--
once or twice--and the Spanish one.
Darlene Sybert
http://www.missouri.edu/~c557506/index.htl
University of Missouri at Columbia, English Dept
Office: 6 Tate Hall Tu-Th 1:30-3:30 or by appt
******************************************************************************
At a lecture on linguistics, the speaker suggested there was no such thing
as a double positive, whereby two affirmatives resulted in a negative.
Someone from the audience called out "Yeah, right!" -Electronic AIR Nwslttr
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