Get yourself a proper 'disgraceful dictionary' - that'll give you a
full range although you realise quickly that you'll never speak the
bloody language demotically.
As a side point, amusingly, 'bitte' and four of the five alternatives
that I have listed are feminine in gender!
They say that a language reflects the preoccupations of it's speakers -
thus, the Inuit have an awful lot of words for snow of various kinds.
And English has a truly amazing number of word for the male member.
Hmmmm...
AndrewF
On 25/12/2004, at 1:38 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> Thank you Phil for pointing out the limitations of my education in the
> French language - and enabling me to discover the extent of coverage
> of my
> dictionary, without which je n'en rien b*te.
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