Re: French syntax (was: Italian Particles)

At 15:16 23/04/00 +0100, you wrote:
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>Beh, oui.
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>"Qu'est-ce que tu me dis en ta langue," or "Qu'est-ce que vous me dites en
>votre langue?"
>Somehow, this grates on my ear a little, how about fronting en ta langue:
>"En ta langue, tu me dis quoi?" ou "En ta langue, qu'est-ce que tu me dis?"
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No, don't use "en". Strange that foreigners want to use it so much :)) .
It's generally not that much used in French, and nearly never for location.
"Dans" is the usual equivalent of "in".

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>PS. Comment dirait on "conlanger" en Français? Constructeur des langues
>artificiaux?
>
We still have to find a word to translate "conlanger". Until then, we use
the English word.

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