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Re: French syntax (was: Italian Particles)

From:Axiem <axiem@...>
Date:Saturday, April 22, 2000, 17:12
> Speaking of French lessons (I snipped John's fascinating but > impenetrable > question), can you say this to a conlanger in French? > > Qu'est-ce que tu me dis dans ta langue? > > Or do you say _en ta langue_? Or could you even possess 'langue'? And > in the informal _tu_ at that?
Well, I'm only a student of French (French semester 6) but I think this sentence came out wrong for what you're trying to say....what would be the English that you're converting to French? From this I get "What are you saying to me in your language?" which doesn't make a whole lot of sense (to me)..but then, maybe I'm just misparsing the English, creating confusion for me. Beh, nevermind, but I'll send this e-mail anyways. -Axiem -axiem@swbell.net