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Re: I'm new!

From:jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Saturday, October 21, 2000, 23:24
> Irrelevant Swedish false friends info: > > In Swedish, a short story is called 'novell' and a novel is > called "roman". Confusing, isn't it? :)
I wonder if this isn't common to a couple of European languages. Romanian has the same thing.
> > Daniel > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > "Imagination is more important > than knowledge. Knowledge is > limited. Imagination encircles > the world" > -- Albert Einstein > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >
Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu "It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young." -G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_