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“ Yesterday, a meeting involving participants from Canada and France did not take place: the French participant thought Thanksgiving was a holiday in Canada and sent a cancellation, whereupon the Canadian thought it was a holiday in France.
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chrys says:
I am actually seeing some beginnings of acceptability of some SMS-style short forms in business writing. Both my manager (late thirties, French, title of VP) and his manager (late fourties, American, title of SVP & GM for Europe) use “u” and “ur” in internal email, even of a serious nature. It’ll be interesting to see where this all goes.
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<a href=”http://serendipity.lascribe.net”>Chris W.</a> Says:
<a href=”#comment-77”>March 9th, 2006 at 10:22 pm</a>
I don’t think I did a good job covering everything that’s wrong with this sentence, did I?
<i>Which</i> with a phrasal antecedent (appositive <i>which</i>) doesn’t shock me much here (as one of my French instructors used to say). Though I guess there’s some infelicity stemming from the subject of the which-clause being a potential subject of the matrix clause, in your reconstructed version: the movie stays faithful to the short story, as opposed to some quality of the movie staying faithful to the short story.
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chrys says:
As a child growing up in Northern Bavaria, I learned about föhn in elementary school. I wasn’t very attuned to atmospheric phenomena, but the adults around me regularly attributed bouts of headache to föhn. Also, for a German-speaking child it’s an intriguing word: it also designates a hand-held hair-dryer.
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