End of ADS-L Digest - 15 Mar 1994 to 16 Mar 1994

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There are 3 messages totalling 66 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. French linguistic legislation

 2. A New Genitive Relative Pronoun?

 3. New Genitive Pronoun?



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Date:  Thu, 17 Mar 1994 00:14:50 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: French linguistic legislation



On several short trips to France in 1978/79 I had only one sorta negative

experience. I'd come in from London and had no idea where the station for

trains to Germany was. The lady in the info booth was rather short with me

when I failed to understand that it was really only a short distance away.

It was raining hard outside, in late December, with a bad cold front on

the way, so grumpiness was not unexpected. Absolutely no other bad

experiences. A couple of times French people recognized my American shoes

and initiated a conversation in English. My mind goes blank when I try

to remember all that French I recognize in print, so I used only English.

                             DMLance