Re: Adopting a plural
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 11, 2004, 14:18 |
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Philippe Caquant scripsit:
> In Raymond Queneau's "Exercices de Style" (the same
> insignificant anecdote written in a lot of different
> styles),
A wonderful book, which I have read in translation (yes, there
are several translations of it, peculiar as that may seem).
> example for the plural of "autobus": Autobi passebant
> completi.
Aha!
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com
And now here I was, in a country where a right to say how the country should
be governed was restricted to six persons in each thousand of its population.
For the nine hundred and ninety-four to express dissatisfaction with the
regnant system and propose to change it, would have made the whole six
shudder as one man, it would have been so disloyal, so dishonorable, such
putrid black treason. --Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee
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