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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 17, 2003
Yet another thing you can do in Opera that you can't do in IE - highlight a word and get a translation
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broelan Posted Mar 17, 2003
*bangs head on wall for letting all knowledge of french leak through the sieve that is her mind*
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 17, 2003
Well, work it out quick, no doubt GD will be getting a polite note asking him to remove it before long...
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GreyDesk Posted Mar 17, 2003
Yes, but my big fear is that my name currently says "No war for salad dressing" or something equally stupid and that the mods are having a good laugh at me. I mean I can vaguely speak French, but it is very vague
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GreyDesk Posted Mar 17, 2003
And this is what the moderation e-mails currently say
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 17, 2003
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toybox Posted Mar 18, 2003
Incidentally, "huile" is cooking oil (or engine grease, or a bigshot<?>. If you mean the yukky stuff you can find in the ground in eastern countries like, well, I don't have an example right now , then it's called "pétrole". Petrol is "essence".
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GreyDesk Posted Mar 18, 2003
Thanks for that Toy Box
I had a fear that I was saying "no war for salad dressing", but I didn't know how to check it. I'll go and update my name right now
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GreyDesk Posted Mar 18, 2003
It rather reminds me of a comment that was going around during the first installment of the Gulf War. George Bush senior and John Major were trying to persuade the World that the conflict was about restoring democracy in Kuwait and not about oil...
"what would happen if Kuwait's greatest export was asparagus"
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toybox Posted Mar 18, 2003
Oh, and Google translations may account for a weird quotation from your PS regarding "le puits a frappé ce chat pour m'écrire". "Le puits" is a well, like a treacle well or a water well. If you mean "well" like in "well, it seems to be lunchtime now", I think you had better say "eh bien" (though I have to say I quite enjoy the surrealistic flavour of "le puits") .
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- 1: GreyDesk (Mar 17, 2003)
- 2: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 17, 2003)
- 3: broelan (Mar 17, 2003)
- 4: Mu Beta (Mar 17, 2003)
- 5: GreyDesk (Mar 17, 2003)
- 6: GreyDesk (Mar 17, 2003)
- 7: egon (Mar 17, 2003)
- 8: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 17, 2003)
- 9: toybox (Mar 18, 2003)
- 10: GreyDesk (Mar 18, 2003)
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