Re: OT: Merry Christmas!
| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 24, 2004, 19:53 |
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:49:05 +1100, Tristan McLeay
<conlang@...> wrote:
>It's been freezing here today! Low twenties, and the same is predicted
>for tomorrow. But no snow round here either; I am talking celsius. Last
>week they were saying it'd be about 30 tomorrow, and it was yesterday,
>but we had a change come in this morning.
20°-30°C freezing? It's summer in Australia ATM, isn't it?
>(Incidentally, I don't know French, but I have noticed a bit that
>adjectives sometimes come before the noun, and sometimes after. Are
>there rules for when, or are adjective-before just fixed phrases or
>something?)
"grand petit haut gros, ??? joli beau, mauvais digne vilain sot, premier
dernier et nombreux" are the adjectives that precede a noun we learnt at
school. But instinctively, there must be many others, mostly the ones that
have only one or two syllables AFAIK. But better ask a Frenchman about that.
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