Re: For those fond of French tongue peculiarities, ...
From: Prai Jei (pvstownsend_at_zyx-abc.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:58:50 +0100
Peter T. Daniels (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
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> 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."
How about "I was going to be on call next week" which translating back into
frogspeak might come out something like "J'allais être de garde la semaine
prochaine".
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