Re: Ne T'enfuis pas

[btd@carina.cray.com (Bryan Dongray)]

Hello,

> In <9601202330.AA05824@rigel.cray.com> btd@carina.cray.com (Bryan Dongray) writes:
> 
> [snip]
> >Now it would have good to "cheat" in the lyrics and have:
> >	Comme une chatte
> >OK, totally non-French, but it would have put gender on the c(h)at.
> 
> What's wrong with a male speaker?  It's not something She shies away
> from.

True, but I was just playing with the concept of genders, which I could
simply not remember which item was which (such as in my school French
classes). I think I remember a table is "feminine" - can't see it myself.
Luckily I didn't do German, three would really be beyond me!
Apologies in advance to people who do understand this, is there some
magic I've never been taught?

> I think "I cannot sit and let/Something happen I'll regret" is
> grammatically fine.
> I'll regret" is not.  You could insert a "which" if you wanted
> to ("I cannot sit and let/Something happen which I'll regret"),
> I suppose, but *I* wouldn't want to listen to it.

Please let me retract my stupidity! I will remember to delay a beat
when singing the second line. Sorry, I cannot help singing along to
any most excellent lyrics/songs, anyone else have this trouble?

			Bryan Dongray

PS Ever notice in an early Star Trek, JL Picard said "Merde", and it
wasn't blanked/silenced out by any broadcast censor! Sacre-bleu!