Re: OT: Composing (jara: My girlfriend is a conlanger!)
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Monday, March 17, 2003, 11:37 |
Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:
> > It's not an anglophone cliche only. The expression exists in France too ;)))
>
> And in Dutch: "zich in zijn graf omdraaien".
Okay, okay. I was only trying to be helpful. :-)
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To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_
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