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Re: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 16:34
At 11:09 18/01/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >> Apparently the same is true >> of at least Russian among the Slavic languages. In fact it is somewhat >> surprising to me, but not strange, that French differs from SAE in this >> respect. > >Formal written standard French seems to resist coining in general, even >in accord with what seem to be productive patterns. >
Indeed, and even in daily spoken French, it is often hard to know the adjective corresponding to a name of town for instance (inhabitants of Rouen are Rouennais, of Paris are Parisiens, but of Saint-Etienne are Stéphanois for instance :) ). Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. "Reality is just another point of view." homepage : http://rainbow.conlang.org