You can always trust the French for a quickie! :) Just slip out the back before they wake up.
James
PS - This is sarcasm. Get over it.
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rowan Collins Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 6:25 PM To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English
On 19/09/05, Gerrit Holl gerrit@nl.linux.org wrote:
Since English is really a dialect of French, a lie bree is probably a place where you buy your books, as it is in any "proper language" (-:
I'm not 100% sure if you were joking or just labouring under a misunderstanding, so I thought I'd point out that English is largely a Germanic language, closely related to the various modern Scandinavian tongues, and also to modern Dutch and German.
French is like a distant cousin (sharing great-great-great-great-grandparents in Proto-Indo-European) which recently had a quick affair, so that a few of her features show up in the offspring ;)