Paging the spelling police

Ah, but only one blue (if you see where my confusion arises)

 

6 French teachers in two years didn't help ...

 

"Páginas amarillas" - "Pages yellows".

Double negatives are also the norm. "No sé nada, soy de Barcelona".

Not surprised.

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Yes.

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Yes, and there is 'agreement' between nouns, adjectives and past
participles.

'la bicyclette bleue' ('the blue bicycle')
'l'ordinateur gris' ('the grey computer')

'je l'ai vu' ('I saw _him_')
'je l'ai vue' ('I saw _her_')

 

I do. The adjective applies to the eyes, not to 'itself', i.e. it's
plural and not singular. Erm .. I'm struggling to find another example
... try, 'les chèques volés de Martin' -- Martin's stolen cheques.
There's only one Martin, but his cheques are plural, and so the
adjective 'volé' ('stolen') is in the plural.

I really need to dig out my server and get the thing up and running
again..

 

I've asked this before after using I'd've a few times. I think the
result was that it's bad grammar or sentence construction, so you
shouldn't need it at all (I'd've thought).

 

WTF do _they_ know, eh ? They even spell 'english' with a lowercase
'e', FFS...

 

Of course, there's always alt.usage.english...

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Ah but IIRC in Italia, "Pagini (pl.) giallo (sin.)"

Don't blame me - 6 teachers in the two years to "O" level really didn't
help

 

'double negative' ??

 

wrote

It's use is not unknown and adds extra dimension to the words.

 

wrote

So why the interrogating styel?

Not me mate, my vowel sounds are firmly rooted in North West Kent.

 

Cos us linguists like to ask questions, like. And I couldn't see where
the double negative was.

 

"I nothing, I'm from Barcelona". Fawlty Towers.

But literally "I don't know nothing...".

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Correct.

 

He was Mexican when Fawlty Towers was broadcasted from Barcelona on
Catalan speaking TV

 

No. It's been repeated in the last month or so.

 

Paul Carmichael wrote

No. I saw it the other night on uk gold plus extra for kids or
something

 

I've heard it's banned in the UK now. Is this true?

(oh, and I did leave out a "know" from the other post).

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