A friend of ours is gradually shifting from her practice of living in the US and visiting France, to living in France and visiting the US. Despite her immersion in the French language and her improved skills in French, she still thinks in English for measurements. So of course I am trying to help her.
Her first written assignment was to translate -- in poetic form -- the temperature ditty into French. Realizing that the French would say something along the lines of "it makes warm" instead of "it is warm", nonetheless, since numbers were involved she elected to use "etre" as the verb. Here is what she came up with. Trente est chaud; Vingte est beau. Dix est tr�s fraus; Zero est froid! I invite comments and suggestions from speakers of French on this. Louis, are you there? Jim -- James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
