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kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) wrote:
>Marc Bonnaud <mbonnaud@francenet.fr> writes:
>> colin@colina.demon.co.uk (Colin Paul Adams) wrote:
>> >>>>>> "Kurt" == Kurt Swanson <kurt@dna.lth.se> writes:
>> >>> - where I, as a french speaker, make the difference between a
>> >>> "fleuve " and a "rivi�re", the english-speaking person will
>> >>> only see a "river"
>   
>> >Kurt> English has many words for moving bodies of water: stream,
>> >Kurt> brook, creek, rivulet, ...
>
>> >burn, beck, ghyll ...
>
>> >carry on somebody.
>
>> Of course we too have "torrent", "ruisseau", etc...
>> but you failed ( by ignorance ) to get my point there
>
>You failed, by incompetence, to express it.
>
>> there is a significant difference between rivi�re and fleuve, since
>> the latter pours into the sea while the former pours into a rivi�re
>> or a fleuve. A difference which does not exist in english. 
>
>Look up "tributary" in any English dictionary.  Or you could just
>respond with another smart-ass remark, only digging your own hole
>deeper...

Someone else said that, in a more polite way ; anyway,  a "tributary" 
( "affluent" in French ) has nothing to do with what I describe ; I maintain
there is no English word to designate only rivers that pour into the
sea.

Get adult ; learn politeness.


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