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
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