Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> Except that we would say "son jean" (jeans and trousers are singular in
> French), that we don't use "building" anymore (I didn't hear it in French since
> the end of the 80s) and that we write traffic with a single "f": "trafic", this
> is perfectly correct. And we have an Academy that pretends to keep the language
> pure...
"Jeans" and "traffic" are probably typos that didn't get caught: the book I
saw this in is in English.
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