Re: The cost of time

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> In French people do "pass" time, "lose" time, but while English speakers take
> time to do something, French speakers "put" time to do something ("mettre du
> temps à"), while an action "takes" time to be done ("prendre du temps à").
English has this last one too:  "It'll take about an hour to fix it."

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
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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