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Old 11-09-2006, 02:59 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Uncle Marvo Uncle Marvo is offline
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In reply to La Puce ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

Cat(h) wrote:
Er.. no. You were simply saying... something unintelligible.
Dix-six might sound like decease to your English ear, but it just
sounded like gobbledigook to the sales assistant.
They are dead would be ils sont décédés - not quite j'ai dix-six.

How truly amazing! When I perused David(in Normandy) website I saw his
diary entry for September and the above 'decede' thing. I wanted to
write something - but then I thought not to because then I thought
Janet will tell me that my French is wrong ... even though I'm French!

I bow to your superior knowledge of French, as I haven't been French since
1066. Anyone else might get an argument (I just like arguing) :-)



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