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Re: [SLE] It's SuSE not SUSE
- From: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:54:26 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <XFMail.051120115420.Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 20-Nov-05 James Knott wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> 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? ;-)
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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> John wrote:
>
>> 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? ;-)
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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