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Re: Two different opposites (again)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, May 13, 2004, 19:30
En réponse à Nik Taylor :


>Some dialects of English do exactly the same thing. You can say "I'll >learn you to speak good". This is, however, highly stigmatized (hence >my example sentence :-)). Is the same true for that usage of >_apprendre_?
No. "apprendre quelque chose à quelqu'un" is perfectly correct and normal French usage. "enseigner" used with a recipient is actually *less* common than this form of "apprendre". Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.