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Subject: [Leica] On the Lug Gallery is Rabs- Nespa
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:08:14 -0700
References: <C7CF8EE6.5FF85%mark@rabinergroup.com>

On Mar 24, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> I agree with Tarek,
>> 
>> Yet, 'n'est-ce pas' is a scarcely used form nowadays, and considered
>> as formal; lecturers - bad ones particulalry - use it a lot to remind
>> their sleepy? audience of their existence ...  :-)
>> 
>> In everyday talk, you'll hear : hein?, pas vrai?, tu crois pas? etc.
>> just as the British might resort to ennit, wudniah, didny, etc.
>> 
>> BTW saying ' *n'c'est pas* ' as first suggested would probably be
>> construed as ' j'n'sai pas  = je ne sais pas', i.e I don't know or
>> rather, dunno.
>> 
>> Bien cordialement de la partie nord de la Catalogne francophone.
>> Philippe
>> 
>> Le 24 mars 10 ? 09:27, Tarek Charara a ?crit :
> 
> 
> "that certain something"  =

un certain je ne sais quoi,


Steve


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