Re: A saga for translation
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 25, 1999, 21:51 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
> > Looks like it corresponds to French "du", and is attached
> > to mass nouns to mean "an unspecified quantity of".
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> Well, that's kind of clunky in a poem, but let's see what
> sense I can make out of that, and if you're right. Pablo?
In English, "du" usually just disappears.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)