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

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:

> 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.)
I'm an American.  And I don't dislike the French; I just dislike the
language on aesthetic grounds -- but I'm weird.  I think Hebrew is pretty.

> > 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.
Heh.  ;)


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