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Step up your French lessons!!! Tom Send a noteboard - 13/12/2010 11:50:21 PM
I was going to do that last year at this time and then went straight on to German instead. Now I'm back at it and it is entirely worth it. If nothing else, you can help show people trying to be pretentious how they misspell things. Example: not too long ago on Facebook a friend of mine wrote "Having Kir Royales and chocolate for breakfast!" I wrote back "It should be 'Kirs Royals' since the word is masculine (hence no -e on 'Royal';) and both words get -s on the end to make them plural." Sure, they said I was the one being pretentious. I don't care - I know that it made the whole pompous post sound less ... impressive. :)
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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Maurice Druon - The Accursed Kings - 13/12/2010 08:19:21 PM 19770 Views
Thank you for giving this review - I had forgotten the name of the author and series. - 13/12/2010 09:29:59 PM 2251 Views
You're welcome (and thanks for the correction, edited). - 13/12/2010 10:23:55 PM 2236 Views
I know it's not "literary". (EDITED) - 13/12/2010 10:42:33 PM 2115 Views
Subjunctive imperfect, yeah. - 13/12/2010 10:51:34 PM 2209 Views
And with regard to your edit, I don't have a problem with passé simples myself. - 13/12/2010 10:53:59 PM 2531 Views
But how can one read any French literature at all without encountering the passé simple? - 15/12/2010 03:39:37 AM 2363 Views
The point is it is a "literary" tense - 15/12/2010 10:19:59 AM 2356 Views
Why would I read a lower style of book (I won't use the term "literature" to describe them) ? - 16/12/2010 06:11:36 AM 2126 Views
I don't want to start a fight here, but your attitude is seriously starting to grate. - 16/12/2010 06:54:30 PM 2382 Views
I don't care. Start a fight. - 16/12/2010 08:24:22 PM 2319 Views
Well, or we can have a civil debate on French culture, I suppose... also fun. - 16/12/2010 09:09:20 PM 2326 Views
Well, I'm up for that, too. - 17/12/2010 05:48:39 AM 2317 Views
Good. - 17/12/2010 09:01:37 PM 2677 Views
Ah - I support the subjunctive!!! - 18/12/2010 05:10:38 AM 2500 Views
TANGENT - 18/12/2010 09:56:31 AM 2356 Views
This whole conversation is just a pile of tangents, anyway. *NM* - 18/12/2010 01:30:09 PM 1060 Views
I enjoy the tangent. - 21/12/2010 12:43:23 AM 2046 Views
But you don't think its disappearance corresponds to a decline in American culture? - 18/12/2010 01:29:43 PM 2308 Views
I read Der Zauberberg in English already. - 21/12/2010 12:48:16 AM 2117 Views
About the passé simple, what Camilla said. As for medieval vocabulary... - 15/12/2010 07:17:44 PM 2332 Views
"Ne...point" is used in Stendhal all the time. - 16/12/2010 06:08:40 AM 2175 Views
That looks like a really fascinating series. - 13/12/2010 10:56:52 PM 2238 Views
Step up your French lessons!!! - 13/12/2010 11:50:21 PM 2443 Views
That is a great reason to learn French. - 14/12/2010 07:29:54 PM 2146 Views
Re: That is a great reason to learn French. - 14/12/2010 08:13:59 PM 2139 Views
Fancier English often turns out to be French, of course. *NM* - 17/12/2010 06:41:19 PM 1142 Views
Ooooh - 14/12/2010 07:41:03 PM 2071 Views
I'm really not quite sure how you managed that. - 14/12/2010 08:09:55 PM 2233 Views
Re: I'm really not quite sure how you managed that. - 14/12/2010 08:13:48 PM 2151 Views
I meant Bertière, yeah. Dumas works too, though. - 14/12/2010 08:18:30 PM 2225 Views

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