Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

I invented nothing at all:

http://french.about.com/library/verb/bl-subjunctive-su.htm

(but you can find references to that special usage on
French sites too).

--- Christophe Grandsire
> En réponse à Philippe Caquant :
>
>
> >There is a very strange form in French with the
> verb
> >"savoir" (to know) used negatively:
> >- Je ne sache pas que cela vous concerne ("sache" =
> >subjunctive form), meaning something like : as far
> as
> >I might know, this is no matter of yours.
>
> Where in the world did you ever hear such an
> expression?! Sometimes, I get
> the idea you're inventing French expressions that
> have never really
> existed. I've never seen a subjunctive not preceeded
> with a conjunction
> like "que" before, and I've read a lot of things of
> all styles. "Je ne
> crois pas que cela vous concerne" is the only
> expression I know meaning this.
>
> >  This is a
> >rather literary style.
>
> Where can I read such an expression then?

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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