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NL888 Posted 18 years ago
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times are a' changing
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00 Overall, times are a' changing in the American home. In 1976, women busied themselves with 26 weekly hours of sweeping-and-dusting work, compared with 17 hours in 2005. Men are pitching in more, more than doubling their housework hours from six in 1976 to 13 in 2005. 0-
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00 Overall, times are a' changing in the American home. In 1976, women busied themselves with 26 weekly hours of sweeping-and-dusting work, compared with 17 hours in 2005. Men are pitching in more, more than doubling their housework hours from six in 1976 to 13 in 2005. 0-
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0 Sure. That's an old-time rural colloquialism, used for style, implying that in the old days there were those who resisted the new-fangled ways. 0-
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- That's an old-time rural colloquialism, used for style, implying that in the old days there were those who resisted the new-fangled ways.
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0 Sure. That's an old-time rural colloquialism, used for style, implying that in the old days there were those who resisted the new-fangled ways. He was a'runnin' fast as he could go! 0-
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0 Thank you Avangi. 02 br
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00 Would you like to give me English version of 01 i 00 ". . . le plaisir delicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile." - Henri de Regnier 02 i 00 ? 0-
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00 Would you like to give me English version of 01 i 00 ". . . le plaisir delicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile." - Henri de Regnier 02 i 00 ? 0-
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0 You're welcome. 02 br
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00 I've never seen it translated. The author was a poet, but I borrowed it from another guy who borrowed it. Maurice Ravel used it on the title page of a short suite he wrote for piano, "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales."I've always assumed the French words mean about what they sound like in English: the delicious and always new pleasures of a useless
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00 I've never seen it translated. The author was a poet, but I borrowed it from another guy who borrowed it. Maurice Ravel used it on the title page of a short suite he wrote for piano, "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales."I've always assumed the French words mean about what they sound like in English: the delicious and always new pleasures of a useless
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Dear Avangi, bonjour.
as a French native speaker, I would like to add a "friendly" (cf your very interesting posts about kindly/kind etc.) comment on your sentence.
"Le plaisir délicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile"
No S at the end of plaisir and no X at the end of nouveau.
so we could translate by:
the delicious and ever new pleasure of a useless occ
as a French native speaker, I would like to add a "friendly" (cf your very interesting posts about kindly/kind etc.) comment on your sentence.
"Le plaisir délicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile"
No S at the end of plaisir and no X at the end of nouveau.
so we could translate by:
the delicious and ever new pleasure of a useless occ
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AnonymousA or AN: should I write " ...a useless occupation" or an useless occupation"? (Light friendly guilty remembrance of English classes at school..)It's 'a'. The glide /j/ is more of a consonant that a vowel at the beginning of a word.
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fivejedjonIt's 'an'. The glide /j/ is more of a consonant that a vowel at the beginning of a word.
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Cool Breeze think fivejedjon means a useless occupation.Thanks. I have now corrected my blunder.
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