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[John <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Ted Harding) wrote:

> On 20-Nov-05 James Knott wrote:
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> > John wrote:
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> > > The latest Harry Potter book is 120 pages longer in the French
> > > translation than in English because of the language - vive la
> > > difference!
> > >      
> > Is that because the French don't understand big words?  ;-)
> >    
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> It is by cause of the fact that neither the style nor the syntax
> of the French tongue can adapt itself with facility to the concision
> which the English tongue is able to permit to itself.
>
> Ted.
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> Date: 20-Nov-05                                       Time: 11:54:16
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Nothing like verbosity when you need it!