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Message: 1724
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 13/01/2001
Subject: Re: french and other natural languages
sendy_baby wrote:
>
> anyhow, could
someone give me the french
> translation for "this
is not a room", presumably
> something like
(watch me go here..) "ceci n'est
> pas un room".
as you can guess it's for my
> latest game
(which has 16 *very* bizarre rooms
> so
far!)
I suggest
http://rivendel.com/~ric/resources/dictionary.html target=new>http://rivendel.com/~ric/resources/dictionary.html> for online dictionaries and natural-language
translators, or even the Yahoo! Club
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/learnalanguageandtranslation target=new>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/learnalanguageandtranslation> (yes, I know you got a reply from Adban, but he
who gives his neighbour a fish helps for a day; he
who teaches to fish helps forever).
> i did
study french but dropped it as soon as i
>
could; i found it very distressing actually,
>
because even inanimate objects are categorised
>
into genders!
:-D
English is the only
natural language I know that DOESN'T have genders for
nouns! Most languages have masculine, feminine and
neuter nouns (French doesn't have neuter). You'd hate
Slovak, for example - to say "I am happy" in Slovak, you
have to say "(ja) som stastn�" or "(ja) som stastn�",
depending on whether you're a man or a woman, and every
surname has a masculine version (e.g. Habsuda) and a
feminine version (Habsudov�).
Sorry, that was very
off-topic, wasn't it - I'm usually much more
compartmentalised! ;-)
--
Andrew
Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/>
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/>
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/>
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