(Ted Harding) wrote:
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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding)
Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 20-Nov-05 Time: 11:54:16 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
Nothing like verbosity when you need it!