Re: For those fond of French tongue peculiarities, ...

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/21/04


Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:20:05 GMT

Yves Euld?de wrote:
>
> ... specialists of this language, or just curious, check
> out http://www.marseillais-du-monde.org/dictionnaire.php3.
> *Really* funny (in particular the 1rst example "c'est pas
> de le faire espré de longue" ahah ah ah !)...
>
> And, while I'm at it: in how many languages can you say
> "j'étais de garde la semaine prochaine" (perfectly correct
> as it implies that "it was planned I would be on-call next
> week but the schedule has changed"...) ?

The English is "I was to be on call next week."

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net


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