Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Hibou Newsgroups: fr.lettres.langue.francaise,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: AI thinks this [go-and-VERB] pattern exists in ENG, FR, DE Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:10:32 +0000 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net iDfp/O/nUUXyhryG9pYTVQx3bW4gsHVJiqldjLBovf+8gL4FyC Cancel-Lock: sha1:MKQn5e3eH7jKfAU+oGY5q6P8fuI= sha256:DGWk59JNmRFmnlzSlIC0w2egfO4NJ2a77HWDqonAsCM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB, fr-FR In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2075 Le 12/11/2024 à 19:04, Silvano a écrit : > > AUE readers are free to request a translation and those who can do it > are free to improve my French. Hey, do you really expect perfect French > from an Italian who has been living and translating in Germany for forty > years and writes here acceptable English? > > OK, I did study French at school, but I did it only in the first year of > the after-school care club, when I was 6 years old. In the second year > they switched to English. The rest is self-study with the obvious > advantage of speaking another Romance language as my mother tongue. For > example, is the correct article "le" or "la"? I get it right without any > effort over 90% of the time. Native English speakers can tell us about > their experience. The key to French and English is to remember what d'Artagnan said (in 'Vingt ans après) : « ... l'anglais n'est que du français mal prononcé... ». English is only badly pronounced French.