Re: R: Re: I'm new!

Daniel wrote:

> Yoon Ha wrote:
>
> > Short stories, not novels.
>
> Irrelevant Swedish false friends info:
>
> In Swedish, a short story is called 'novell' and a novel is
> called "roman". Confusing, isn't it? :)
Same in Italian ('novella' and 'romanzo'). It's English which caused the
false friend, IMO, since in German they have 'Roman' for novel (ok, ok, they
have Kurzgeschichte as well, but that's an English calque)

Luca

> Daniel
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>  than knowledge. Knowledge is
>  limited. Imagination encircles
>  the world"
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