SPUG: Re: Sept. Meeting: Lightning Strikes SPUG!

[David Dyck]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Isabelle @ school wrote:

> Quoth David Dyck:
> >
> > Blaise Pascal
> >
> >      Je n'ai fait plus longue que parce que je n'ai par eu le loisir de
> >      la faire plus courte.

I forgot to credit the web page where I copied this quote from
  http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/cyc/q/quotes.htm#p

I don't know where they got the French text from.

> Sorry about the nitpicking, but the above quotation does not mean much in
> French as it stands.
> Perhaps you meant:
> "J'ai écrit une longue lettre parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire
> plus courte."
> or:
> "Je vous écris une longue lettre parce que je n'ai pas le temps d'en écrire
> une courte."

I must admit that the translations you provide seem to translate better
using http://babel.altavista.com/tr



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