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Article #4628Re: European don't understand american sentence (help)
From: Peter Hullah
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00
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Cornel Ball wrote:
>
> In article <881173270.249842@wagasa.cts.com>, nexus@king.cts.com (Alan
> Pollock) wrote:
> > Sylvain TIRREAU (user@msn.com) wrote:
> > :Why don't they write : "first-generation immigrants are still closed to
> > :their diverse origins, while most long-established Americans are wholly
> > :assimilated." ?
> > Because 'close' is used in the sense of 'pret', and closed means 'ferm�'. Nex
> And while we're at it, "European DOESN'T understand american sentence".
And while we're at it, Nex, 'pr�s' means 'close'.
'Pr�t' means 'ready' (adjective) or 'loan' (noun).
But as this is a.u.e. not a.u.f. (which doesn't exist) you don't
lose any marks.
Pete
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10e7bd,d4bab07ed34bd4cd X-Google-Attributes: gid10e7bd,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,d4bab07ed34bd4cd X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-Thread: 111b92,d4bab07ed34bd4cd X-Google-Attributes: gid111b92,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed3b,d4bab07ed34bd4cd X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed3b,public X-Google-Thread: ff62a,d4bab07ed34bd4cd X-Google-Attributes: gidff62a,public From: Peter Hullah <Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr> Subject: Re: European don't understand american sentence (help) Date: 1997/12/04 Message-ID: <348681E2.2995FE18@eurocontrol.fr> X-Deja-AN: 295199754 References: <#RMuDeAA9GA.261@upnetnews04> <881173270.249842@wagasa.cts.com> <ballc-0312972136230001@ts34ip199.cadvision.com> Reply-To: Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr Organization: EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,can.schoolnet.english,maus.talk.english,misc.education.language.english,uw.english-usage