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Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

From:Sylvia Sotomayor <sylvia1@...>
Date:Sunday, June 20, 1999, 0:56
At 05:13 PM 6/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
>dunn patrick w wrote: > >> Oh, and English? A friend of mine from France put it best (okay, actually >> it was her mother, but who wants to deal with all those annoying >> genitives?): "English sounds like two cats making love in a paper sack." >> >> Actually, she didn't say "making love." > >W's French friend's mother's saying English's sound resembles >paper-sack's cats's f###ings is just sibilance-shyness, sorry. >(This is still on-topic because it says "le chat" is the subj.) >
Dumas says (in The Whites & the Blues) that French is for talking to men, Italian is for talking to women, and German is for talking to horses. Personally, I talk to my cat in German, too. Sylvia Sotomayor sylvia1@ix.netcom.com http://pw2.netcom.com/~sylvia1/