wat wood i wanna spik frog fer win i kin spik merican ta my frinds?
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From: "Liliane L. Clever" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Mainframe Limericks...
Very well said indeed. And by the way, I dare any of the so-called-real
american sysprogs on this list to say in french, or any other language
besides english, what Bruno said so eloquently.
Liliane
At 01:21 PM 6/22/2006, Bruno Sugliani wrote:
Yeah
We french people ( some other foreigners as well) are often using a
strange
grammar . agreed . and confusing it . agreed !
But then :
logiciel and software are not necessarily the same thing .
It is a subtility ( or a pain :-)) ) in the french language
un logiciel means "a software PRODUCT"
le logiciel means "software"
les logiciels means 'software products"
So as you can see,if it is plural ,we are definitely talking about
software
products .
If it is singular and it is behind le ( The ) it becomes software .
And if it is singular with the number 1 in front it becomes again a
software
product .( right ,because the number could be different than zero )
Not sure i make myself clear but i could explain it in french :-))
And in french i would tell you that for me a software product is not
necessarily software <big grin>
Bruno
Bruno(dot)sugliani(at)groupemornay(dot)asso(dot)fr
Liliane Clever
SunGard Higher Education/Temple University
Lead Systems Programmer
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