Re: I'm new!
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 23:11 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Note the word order in "longue nouvelle", which makes it look like an
> idiom rather than a simple transparent phrase "long short story" (yes,
> we do say that in English sometimes no matter how stupid it sounds).
No worse than "cold hot dog", IMO. "Short story" is a fixed phrase, at
least in my speech, I say "shórt story", not "shórt stóry", that is,
pronounced as one word, not two.
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