Castelot uses the word "aussi" in very strange ways. I just checked the French Wiktionary, which does indeed have the following definition:
"4) C’est pourquoi, à cause de cela.
Ces étoffes sont belles, aussi coûtent-elles cher."
I must say I don't think I'd ever encountered that use of "aussi" before - at first I thought it was a freak misspelling for "ainsi", though that didn't really entirely fit either, it was only when it appeared again and again that I figured it had to be some outdated meaning. So just how outdated is that?
"4) C’est pourquoi, à cause de cela.
Ces étoffes sont belles, aussi coûtent-elles cher."
I must say I don't think I'd ever encountered that use of "aussi" before - at first I thought it was a freak misspelling for "ainsi", though that didn't really entirely fit either, it was only when it appeared again and again that I figured it had to be some outdated meaning. So just how outdated is that?
André Castelot - Bonaparte (and on the reviewing of biographies)
- 05/04/2011 08:54:03 PM
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I think you are right
- 05/04/2011 10:05:55 PM
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Yeah.
- 05/04/2011 10:26:42 PM
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Would you say it is still worth reading it?
- 05/04/2011 10:32:23 PM
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It depends on your background knowledge and/or willingness to look stuff up.
- 05/04/2011 10:51:46 PM
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Re: Would you say it is still worth reading it?
- 06/04/2011 01:24:27 PM
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I am a fan of Bertière
- 06/04/2011 01:37:50 PM
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Re: I am a fan of Bertière
- 06/04/2011 03:25:31 PM
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Re: I am a fan of Bertière
- 06/04/2011 03:41:07 PM
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His writing didn't strike me as particularly difficult.
- 06/04/2011 06:48:05 PM
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Re: His writing didn't strike me as particularly difficult.
- 06/04/2011 08:09:21 PM
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Re: André Castelot - Bonaparte (and on the reviewing of biographies)
- 06/04/2011 12:34:31 PM
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Oh, and on a matter of vocabulary...
- 06/04/2011 09:47:35 PM
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I don't see why biographies are more difficult to review than history books generally.
- 06/04/2011 03:30:37 PM
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