Re: Translation exercise was Re: What _Le Monde_ thinks of conlanging

En réponse à Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>:

> On Sunday 14 July 2002 01:02, John Cowan wrote:
> > http://www.zompist.com/lemonde.html
>         I rather like the phrase "Cette futilité absolue ne manque pas
> de charme..."
> even if it could be taken as derogatory. Or maybe its just because it's
> in
> French.
Nope, it is derogatory even in French. But in this case I don't think that the
journalist meant it in a derogatory way. Or else why would he have spent time
on making an article about it :))) .

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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