Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: matt1234

OTAN: Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique Nord (NATO in French)

I had worked on an Algerian natural gas project where much of the drawings used French. The grammer is backwards. Hmm, talking backwards, kinda like “backward masking?” The Devil’s language?


55 posted on 02/02/2014 11:26:22 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies ]


To: Fred Hayek
The only thing that is really reversed in the noun-adjective order. The order used in French is common in many languages.

The remainder of the difference is the preponderance of prepositions in the French translation.

74 posted on 02/02/2014 12:54:32 PM PST by matt1234 (Hitler blamed the Jews. Obama blames the Tea Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson