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two questions of word choice
Jun
.
26th
,
2007
03:34 am
swan_tower
I have two questions to put to you, my faithful readers, regarding
Midnight Never Come
. Both are issues of word choice, but on a broad scale.
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Date:
2007-06-26 03:46 pm (UTC)
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Believe it or not, I'm more apt to recognize Japanese than French, lol.
I'm still amazingly inept with the words you brought up. So I will be reading the book with google open for the words :\
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Date:
2007-06-26 04:23 pm (UTC)
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cow -- beef
pig -- pork
chicken -- poultry
Anglo-Saxon -- French
animal -- supermarket
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Date:
2007-06-26 07:44 pm (UTC)
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Or, more to the point:
farm -- banquet table
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Date:
2007-06-26 07:58 pm (UTC)
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swan-tower.livejournal.com
oui = hai
non = iie
certainement = mochiron
^_^
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Date: 2007-06-26 03:46 pm (UTC)I'm still amazingly inept with the words you brought up. So I will be reading the book with google open for the words :\
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Date: 2007-06-26 04:23 pm (UTC)pig -- pork
chicken -- poultry
Anglo-Saxon -- French
animal -- supermarket
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Date: 2007-06-26 07:44 pm (UTC)farm -- banquet table
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Date: 2007-06-26 07:58 pm (UTC)non = iie
certainement = mochiron
^_^