Re: CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: Yorkshire/Texas (was: dl)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 30, 2001, 8:01 |
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En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Mangiat wrote:
>
> > Well, in Italian *they* still take the plural:
> >
> > gli Stati Uniti sono una repubblica
> > ART States United.PL are a republic.
> >
> > And I think French and Spanish do the same:
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> Oui--les E'tats-Unis (?), si je me souviens correctement.
> YHL
>
If the ' stands for an acute accent on the E, it's correct (though in French we
don't usually write accents on capital letters). Well, this is a perfectly
correct French sentence, even the orthography is correct! You still remember
quite a lot of French Yoon Ha!
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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