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Re: We will catch Italy!
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sun, 2 Jul 2000 00:55:16 GMT
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"James Howse" wrote...
> In lugnet.loc.au, Jamie Obrien writes:
> > You know, if we had someone who read italian and translated the message
> > into english for us to read that would blow us way up into the UK
> > region!!!
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> Try babelfish, but you're not missing much. The last convesation I heard • was
> one involving a Tshirt of some description.
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> > Don't you hate it when flight hostesess go through that procedure, but
> > seem to say more in the French version than the English, what are we
> > missing out on!
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> IIRC,IANAL(1) English allows a decent bit of brevity compared to other
> languages. Larger vocab, flexible (read practically non-existant) grammar, • no
> gender, expanded tense, borrowed words...
Good work. I always assumed it was the class thing.
The English, being inculcated from an early age in the class system have
great difficulties even listening to their inferiors, and so they largely
just don't. Consequently, the air hostess doesn't really need to worry
about what she says, and so drops the odd word or three out of sheer
boredom.
The French, being considerably more egalitarian, DO listen, so as a
consequence, the air hostess takes more care and provides more detail.
Your explanation makes good sense. You do realise though, mine could be
true too.......
Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/port/
IANAL and you're dating a linguist James. Or are you just trying to tempt
to me to get in trouble in a family forum again, I mean really. All manner
of pithy rejoinders come to mind, all of which could get my ugly <<expletive
referring to the posterior gluteus maximus deleted>> tossed off Lugnet ;-)
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| (...) Try bablefish, but you're not missing much. The last convesation I heard was one involving a Tshirt of some description. (...) IIRC,IANAL(1) English allows a decent bit of brevity compared to other languages. Larger vocab, flexible (read (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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