• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: Didier PH Martin <martind@n...>
• Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:09:02 -0400

Didier PH Martin wrote:


> Didier replies:
> Far way from me that thought! I meant with the "but", not a comparison, only
> an emphasis, something that stands in front of. Sorry, if this was
> ambiguous.

The problems of communicating in a 3rd-party language:  English "but"
is much more strongly adverse to what has come before (expressed or implied)
than its French equivalent, which is nearly just an emphasis marker.

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with art- / lessness           \\ -- Piet Hein

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