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Re: translation exercise

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, April 2, 1999, 2:22
Fabian wrote:
> It really is as literal as it appears; I meant 'motorbikes'. If I had meant > trains, I dread to think what 'father' would have called them.
Oh. Anyhoo, that's an object as well, an inanimate, totally-under-sentient-control object, and thus goes into G7 anyways. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor