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Coup de grace = lawnmowerHilary, I made a call for some more of those recently, but it was hidden away in the Europants thread in Information and Announcements. http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=27269&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&vc=1#Post27269[edited highlight] Does anyone remember the "Fractured French" phrases such as: coup de grace = lawnmower? I made a fractured translation of La Marseillaise about a year ago. Too big to post so send me a private message if you want it. [/lowlight] I have a few more (most, I think, originally from or at least captured in a book (c. 1960?) called Fractured French): pied a terre = the plumbing is out of order Monparnasse = my father's country seat pas de deux = father of twins Jeanne D'Arc = the light in the bathroom doesn't work but, as RhubarbCommando says, that may already be too many. Rod
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I always liked the schoolboy howler
hors d-oeuvres = horse's eggs.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Browse through secondhand bookstores until you find the novel "Time and Again" copyright 1970 by Jack Finney ISBN 0-671-24705-0 and 0-671-24295-4 PBK Simon and Schuster, pub.
So surprised to see this book mentioned. It is one of my favorites, though no one else seems to have heard of it. It is an excellent book and the time travel is very believable, with all of the details tied up at the end. I have found several used copies of the book and given it to friends and family. All of them have become immediate fans of the book. I heard a rumor several years ago that some actor had bought the rights to the book, but haven't heard anything else about it.
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Welcome aBoard, tberg, nice to have you. I, too, liked "Time and Again", enough to keep it all these years since I bought it. An interesting concept, and I especially enjoyed how it points out how the tiniest, unimportant-seeming things can have such drastic effects on our future (HI, A & F!!  ).
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The day is a fixed period of time or a portion of time. You can also say throughout the ages.
This comes close to the way I see it: You can only say throughout when it refers to a period with a known end (that's when it's out). The beginning does not matter. "Throughout the past" looks ok to me, wheras "Throughout the future" - well...
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Jackie muses: it points out how the tiniest, unimportant-seeming things can have such drastic effects on our future (HI, A & F!!). Indeed. Chaos theory at its bestest.  (having said that, I want to read this book!)
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it points out how the tiniest, unimportant-seeming things can have such drastic effects on our future Unless, of course, history fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. (courtesy to Ford Prefect.) I hope so, or all that work will push me out of existence
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