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Re: Bastille Day
Keith,
"pomme de terre" is the single phrase meaning potato. Literally,
it means "fruit of the earth." "frites" modifys potato and in
french comes after usually not before the thing it is modifying.
e.g. "Chat noir" means "black cat" not "cat black."
Bob
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>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Bastille Day
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:10:25 -0400
>
>"Robert W. Schramm" wrote:
>
> > Viva le pomme de terre frites!
>
>I hope you mean...
>
>Vive le terre des pomme frites!
>
>Otherwise... you want the potatoes of the fried land to live long?
>
>Keith
>
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