Re: Untranslated notes (was: Poll by Email No. 7)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 18, 2002, 20:38 |
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En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
>
> Did you make this idiom up, or is it the normal French one? English
> says
> "apples and oranges".
>
No, I made it half up. the idiom exists also in French, but only as a template,
in which everyone is quite free to compare whatever s/he wants. There is
no "definite" form. I often change the comparison points depending on my
whim :)) .
Christophe.
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