Re: OT: Slightly OT: French as a second language

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> > Non!  Mes amis, il a decouvert le vrai.  Maintenant nous devons
> > tuer-lui!
> >
> > :)
> >
>
> :))) OK, everybody really think in French, but they have trouble writing
> it :))) . Correctly (I mean, even in spoken French :)) ), it should be:
>
> Non ! Mes amis, il a découvert la vérité. Maintenant nous devons le tuer !
Told you it sucked.

Okay, I knew the accent marks, but I use pine, so they're beyond the pale
to type.  But why verite instead of vrai?  What's the shading in meaning
there?  And I thought that the infinitive took a suffixed pronoun.  Or is
that the imperative.

>
> But your version was fair enough.
>
> 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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