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Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, March 14, 2003, 10:05
En réponse à Herman Miller <hmiller@...>:

> > -- Miséricorde ! s'écria M. Poiredebeurré, pâlissant; le nom lui était > évidemment connu. C'est la pire nouvelle qui soit venue à Bree de mon > temps. >
Is it *really* the French translation?!! Because it sounds ridiculous to me!! And the use of "de mon temps" there is *definitely* wrong! "De mon temps" can only be used in past contexts. If it's really the French translation, no wonder I have bad memories of my reading LOTR when I was 10... Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.

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