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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   Hibou   wrote:   
   >Le 02/01/2026 à 13:53, The Doctor a écrit :   
   >> Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Et maintenant INN est condiut par un francais.   
   >>   
   >> Plutot deriger que conduire..   
   >   
   >Well, French is a bugger (that's the fun of it). Plutôt : INN est   
   >dirigée par un Français.   
   >   
   >That is, dirigée (participle, not infinitive) if INN is considered to be   
   >une entreprise, une société, a company, and so feminine, dirigé if it's   
   >un groupe (like le groupe Orange), and so masculine. One can circumvent   
   >this question by saying: C'est un Français qui dirige INN.   
   >   
   >And Français with a capital for a Frenchman. (As a noun without a   
   >capital it's the language, le français, la langue française.)   
   >   
   >Quibbles? Yes in a way. These things must strike terror into French   
   >school pupils, who regularly have to take dictation. We native English   
   >speakers are lucky people.   
   >   
      
   Exactly!   
      
   Still how are the Scots doing to preserve Scottish Gaelic?   
      
   >>> Google Translate converts that into ....   
   >>>   
   >>> "And now IT is driven by a Frenchman."   
   >>>   
   >>> Could they be talking about a different "IT"??   
   >>   
   >> It must have meant it not IT.   
   >   
      
      
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