Re: USAGE: rhotics (was: Advanced English + Babel text)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 4, 2004, 5:54 |
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:37:56 -0500, J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:06:29 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
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> >Christophe used to tell us that the uvular trill is as good as dead in the
> >French of France today, the uvular fricative being close to universal.
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> Thank you for this information, Andreas and Sally! I ignored it.
False friend? I ask because in French, "ignorer" means (AFAIK) "to be
ignorant of; to not know", which seems to fit the sentence better --
in English, "ignore" usually means something like "to be aware of (a
fact) but deliberately not take it into consideration" or "to cast
aside (advice)" -- a more active method.
Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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