Don't worry ! those little latin expressions aren't very easy to overcome. In french, we are using them frequently but I'm not sure they are always understood....
Hi Guys ! I've just subscribe to this group, being French, living in England and studying english, I thought it would be interesting to chat a bit in both...
Ahem! Let's go back to the main purpose of this list ( if it can stand the recent events ;))) ... On dit : "ça chauffe!" ;) ... "par erreur" ... "à le...
merci Patrice et aussi please correct my mauvaise Francasise quand vous voulez- I appreciate it!!!\ Thank you again ... From: Patrice Champarou...
Lorraine Calzetta
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... appreciate it!!!\ Oh well, I joined a mailing-list, I didn't apply for a full-time job ;))) Okay Lorraine, I hope you don't take offense, "sorry I couldn't...
Dear lists, This is not the first time some members of a group say that political matters are important enough to be discussed, in spite of the rules of ...
Je comprends ce que vous voulez dire par le mélange des phrases dans le texte. C'est vrai que c'est très difficile à corriger mais il ne faut pas oublier...
Je n'ai pas vraiment beaucoup de temps à me consacrer à ce forum, mais cela ne me fait rien de faire le même texte dans les deux langues. Je fais encore...
One of the problems with being married to a person who is foreign is the issue of "broken english" and this becomes the norm- Broken english is common in the...
Lorraine Calzetta
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Rinzea- I cannot believe your post after writing mine_ this is so true!!! thank you. Original message attached. Lorraine Calzetta .....Que Hiver, que demain. ...
Lorraine Calzetta
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Americansdo this alot- Like I said it is called Broken English and they feel very comfortable with it- Most of the immigrants who settled in the US tried to...
Lorraine Calzetta
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Merci beaucoup Patrice. ... From: Patrice Champarou <pmchamp@...> Sent: 04/03/03 12:58 PM To: English-French@...,...
Lorraine Calzetta
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Merci Patrice, Vous n'êtes pas prof, par hazard ? ... les prépositions...cauchemar...dans les deux langues. ... Je comprends ! ... Ce n'est pas possible de...
thanks for the correction :-) ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and...
Hi Chris ... Hasard... eh, tu me dis "vous" à présent??? ;))) ... Tout est possible, mais je n'ai jamais lu ou entendu "en ligne" avec ce sens... peut-être...
Chris, Just one remark about- ... "ce n'est pas moi qui vais..." It is not I who am...you can't say that in English... It's the ''It'' that forces the ''is''....
hi since on the subject of broken english...i am from india and here when speaking informally with friends we use a mixture of all languages we know!!(which is...
Thanks Patrice. ... True, it's certainly not idiomatic. You could say 'It won't be me who translates it', though, and the verb doesn't agree with the first...
Hi Vineet, I'm terrible on formal questions of grammar so I can't give a 'correct' answer. But I can say that 'who am' *feels* very odd unless it's in a...
Greetings to all. I will write most of this in English, as I have only recently started trying to learn French. During my last lesson, we began learning about...
Hi Chris, Good morning!! Common usage is something that is most appreciated and followed by masses. It is quite common among the people to make grammatical...
Hello Barry If by "perfect" you mean the passé simple, the anwer is easy : we never use it! ;) I mean in spoken language, even in a non-litterary piece of...
Hi Vineet I almost sent something like this - having done seven years of Latin probably induces a normative attitude ;) ... english.. this again is ... first...
This is the description of a dance performance: L’ambiguïté du masculin et du féminin se perdent dans une ronde de genres peu importante, l’androgynie...
David Vaughn
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Hi David I don't know why, but the Sagittarian zodiac sign is always represented as a Centaur shooting an arrow. This is a highly unsexed symbol ( I mean,...
Thanks to Patrice & Mapdervaux (?) for your semi-contrasting replies. I've gotten a time extension, so if anyone has any other thoughts, it's not too late. ...
