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Re: her instead of "his or her" Guest of ProXad - France
Cyrano de B. (Cyr@no.deB) 2007/01/24 05:42


>
>> It is like in the old example of "I stopped smoking". You'll hear a lot
>> of
>> french people say "I stopped to smoke", because in French we say "j'ai


>> explicitant un peu!).
>

> cigarette", possibly?  (My French is very rusty!)

That would be OK, provided that you know from context what you "stopped"


pause cigarette". Only, I don't smoke. :)



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