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Re: Weekly Vocab 8

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 18:32
En réponse à Roger Mills :


>Christophe, your toes would curl if you ever heard what happens to French >words in the mouths of so many Americans........
LOL, good that I have big shoes :))) . Anyway, You should hear how most French people mangle English words :))) .
>military-pidgin Vietnamese.) My sergeant used to talk of his favorite >night-spot, the ['tudiwA], which I assumed was a VN word, like the Tu Do(1) >bar we all loved... until one day we were driving around and he pointed, >"Hey, let's stop at the ['tudiwA]"-- and voilà, there it was, Tour d'Ivoire.
LOL. Well, not so bad, just non-rhotic ;))) . Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.