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To: Michael Bluth
I myself wonder just how straight men who refer to potatoes as "apples of the earth" are.

Yep, it takes a pretty bloviated language to make English look succinct and crisp. The French have eight word long word descriptions of concepts that the English can describe in two.

27 posted on 10/31/2005 12:38:04 PM PST by 50sDad (Star Trek Tri-D Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
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To: 50sDad

"Yep, it takes a pretty bloviated language to make English look succinct and crisp."

"The French have eight word long word descriptions of concepts that the English can describe in two." [17]

Les francais expriment en huit mots ce que les anglais peuvent exprimer en deux. [14]


30 posted on 10/31/2005 12:42:35 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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