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· Naughties
· · 2004
· · · April
· · · · 29 (2 entries)
Scilla Leaves Vermin · More botanical shots: one from California, one from Siberia, and one weed ...
Imbroglio Polyglotte · This, from Libération, is about the practicalities of dealing with the languages of the European Union, now twenty in number. If you can read French it’s well worth a visit. Its charms include the finding that more languages available means, in fact, fewer used; characters named Patrick Twidle and Berit Tecäär; and the wonderful quote “On n'a pas parlé. Alors, en fin de repas, on a dansé...” I wouldn’t know how to say that in English, we have to limp along without on. Know any Slovenian-Portuguese translators?
