In a message dated 12/16/2003 9:43:49 AM Central Standard Time,
marv@lancaironline.net writes:
I suppose
there is a long time ago you have learnt French language,so write it
in
English,your sentence in French is non understandable for a French speaking
people. Sorry....
Alain,
Alas, I flunked both German and French in college. The dean wouldn't accept
FORTRAN so I made arrangements with my Spanish professor to satify the language
requirement by the extensive reading of South American authors and my writing
analyses of the literature. I am tone deaf in part of the vocal range and
have a difficult time even understanding American English - Of course, my wife
thinks I am totally deaf when she talks to me.
Some could possibly miss the humor in my French expression -
especially when they actually speak French. Most traditional languages,
whether they be German, French, Italian, etc. tend to not create new words
for new objects. Instead, they frequently link a handful of descriptive
words together - sometimes a very cumbersome result. However, when I
looked up "search engine" in the online French and German translation
dictionaries, they both came back with "search engine." Perhaps it is more
common today to adopt the English language term. ( Gary, I was hoping
for "search motor.")
The offending line was:
Perhaps in French: Lingerie avec le seine a voyez dessous
le collage (software for the net to view beneath the layers).
Lingerie = softwear (a textile industry term) = sounds like software
(computer program).
seine = net = internet, the place where search engines run.
voyez dessous = see underneath?
collage = pasted up collection of odds and ends?
My humor, if any, is never tested. I just blurt it out and hope for the
best. I doesn't always work even though I might be LOL.
Scott
Krueger
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II-P N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL (KARR)
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we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know
there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not
know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't
know." D. Rumsfeld