Re: French (was: all sorts of stuff)

En réponse à Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>:

>
> Heh :) since we're into subjunctives -- could Clint also had said "on
> n'a personne avec qui on *puisse* parler en francais"?
Sounds okay to me, but using the simple affirmative "... avec qui on *peut*..."
sounds possible too, if maybe more familiar.

 And would "avec
> lesquels/lequel" be a possible substitute for "avec qui"?
>
It would sound to me like trying to speak "like in a book", that's to say that
I wouldn't bother if it was written in a book of high literature (from a Victor
Hugo or something like that), but any other case would be a no-no, especially
the spoken language :)) .

Christophe.

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