Re: CHAT: Perceiving French (was Re: Introducing Paul Burgess etc.)

En réponse à Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:

>
> How strange, Stephen! You are not the only one. J'ai précisement la
> même
> 'experience'.
"expérience" is French too ;))) .

 Je peut la lire et comprendre, mais je 'hate' (haïs?)

Not sure of the spelling. I'd write "hais" since it's pronounced [E], but I may
be wrong.

> chercher
> chaque seconde mot dans un dictionaaire...
>
"chaque deuxième mot". I always find it strange that foreigners abuse the
word "second". In French it means "second and last", and thus normally can only
be applied when you refer to two entities only. And since "deuxième" can be
used even then without sounding strange to French ears, I recommend all
foreigners to use "deuxième" rather than "second". This way, they'll be sure
not to sound strange :) .

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.

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