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

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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> My French sucks like a hoover, of course, but today I was writing a story
Huh? I thought you were American and it was Englishmen who used `hoover'
to mean `vacuum'?

> about a guy who finds a rip in reality, and steps through it into a
> desert, and returns with some of the sand.  I wanted to make him a Dr, and
> a fairly pathetic fellow, so of course I fell back on French (sorry,
> Christophe, but I hate your native language, as much as I like you).
Must be English ;) (That was, of course, a go at your not liking the
French.)

> Then, in revising, I looked it up.  It means "cork; wisp of straw."  Am I
> suddenly psychically picking up the *perfect* French word for what I want
> to say?  Am I tied into the group mind?  Or did I just get lucky?
>
> Past life memories, maybe?
My guess is co-incidence, but that's simply because I don't believe in
past lives and group minds and the like.

Tristan

anstouh@yahoo.com.au

War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
                       - BSD Games' Fortune
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