Subject: RE: RE: Justice to J.D.
From: Valérie Aron (miss_vertigo18@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 15:54:35 GMT
To Zazie:
I can reassure you: your english sounds great and
"free", and I perfectly get the fineness of your
previous mails and thoughts.
Valérie Aron, a french fan of yours
--- zazie <zazie@raketnet.nl> wrote:
> This proves to me my theory about my English: I
> speak it, understand it,
> but i don't FEEL it, especially with synonyms or
> near-synonyms like that.
> Have any of you a similar experience? I realize
> that, you all being
> Englishers, with little or no incentive to speak
> another language,
> certainly not the life-long exposure that the
> small-country-Europeans have,
> this question might be in vain.
> "Fancy" is British colloquial speech i guess.
> Cognotively it means to me, 'like in a
> love-sex-agape-eros way,
> whereas i would use 'like' equally in regard to
> apples, movies and people
> of the opposite sex.
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 02:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: joyce morrison <incurablejoyce@excite.com>
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: RE: Justice to J.D.
>
>
> "fancy" comes to me as, well, a superficial term.
> sounds witty, compared to
> the overratedness of "like", but still superficial.
> "like" is more
> honest--unless, ofcourse, you really mean the
> opposite.
>
> ------
>
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:41:38 -0400,
> bananafish@roughdraft.org wrote:
>
> > Boy am *I* out of the loop on this one.
> >
> > Does anyone else like it when people say "fancy"
> instead of "like" or
> > whatever else may apply?
> >
> > Pete the Amateur.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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