En réponse à Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>:
>
> Probably not as good an example of yours, but i'll often hear my
> father
> say things like "close the light", which is something quite common
> that
> other Filipinos will do (my father is American born, and even though
> he
> spoke english growing up, and really only listening to my grandmother
> and
> father speak, he picked up their speech habits). My grandmother does
> the
> same also.
>
I tend to say also "close the light" (and "open the light") though even in
French it's not lexically correct (we say "éteint" and "allume la lumière").
Christophe.
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