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Article #3024Re: use and meaning of "etang" in French
From: Stephane Di Cesare
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00
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On 25 Jan 1998 22:52:20 +0100, kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) wrote: >Well, most of them are certainly less deep than any of the alpine >lakes:-). (I'm not sure about the Etang de Berre, though.) My Petit >Robert says "generallement moins vaste, moins profond qu'un lac." (Note >the "generallement".) I think the Etang de Vaccares is actually the second largest lake in France... They are probably not very deep, as they are close to the sea. >Two possibilities (just guessing): one is that this usage might be >regional (southern France), and the other is that the bodies of water in >question are very recent, and originally were only the size of a pond. Being from the area, I don't think it is a regional usage (at least nowadays). Concerning the Etang de Thau, it is artificial, it is a consequence of linking Sete to land under Louis XIV. Sete was an island before. It is in fact the part of the sea which is inside land. Stephane Di Cesare Lund University - Computational Linguistics Student Sweden
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10870e,2586fa76ffc639bf X-Google-Attributes: gid10870e,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,2586fa76ffc639bf X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public From: cie96sdc@student2.lth.se (Stephane Di Cesare) Subject: Re: use and meaning of "etang" in French Date: 1998/01/27 Message-ID: <34cceb8b.10598282@news.student.lu.se> X-Deja-AN: 319780553 References: <6adgb2$fh3$1@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <m34t2srzle.fsf@gabi-soft.fr> Reply-To: cie96sdc@student2.lth.se Organization: Lunds Universitet Newsgroups: sci.lang,bit.listserv.geograph