From map18@cornell.edu Fri Nov 5 09:39:35 1999
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:56:16 -0500 (EST)
From: map18@cornell.edu
To: Andrew E Long
Subject: Re: sites
I typed
Where's the bathroom?
It said:
Oł est-ce que la salle de bains est?
So I typed:
Oł est-ce que la salle de bains est?
It said:
Where is what the room of baths is?
Looks like it needs a little work. @@@@
Marek
From aelon@sph.umich.edu Wed Dec 29 09:50:37 1999
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 09:39:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew E Long
To: map18@cornell.edu
Subject: franglais
That's good! I didn't think about iterating. I've continued your process
to discover that the next text in the cycle doesn't get any better....
Where's the bathroom?
Ou est-ce que la salle de bains est?
Where is what the room of baths is?
Ou est-ce que c'est que la salle de bains est?
Where is what c'est that the room of baths is?
Hmmm, it's suffering from Franglais! It meant to use the
non-conventional English expression
"C'est what?"