Like I said, You are so jealous and it seems envious as well. But that is to be expected now that the Great Empire of the Soviet Union is no more. But hey, you still have the memories, however evil they happen to be ! hahahahahahaha . . . LOLOve.
a. It seems in english one doesn't say "it's called ..." about a written sign but "it reads ...". Which is completely stupid since it's not the sign that reads, it's actually the reader, but oh well.
b. To denote something is of crappy quality, the french idiom is "en carton" (paperboard) instead of "en papier", so that ugly dog would rather be, un tigre en carton :)
well, i didn't mean something of crappy quality, i actually meant paper tiger (http://www.onelook.com/?w=paper+tiger&ls=a). and of course you're right, a poster 'reads'
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Date: 2005-10-25 09:33 pm (UTC)a. It seems in english one doesn't say "it's called ..."
about a written sign but "it reads ...". Which is completely
stupid since it's not the sign that reads, it's actually the reader,
but oh well.
b. To denote something is of crappy quality,
the french idiom is "en carton" (paperboard) instead of
"en papier", so that ugly dog would rather be, un tigre en carton :)
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Date: 2005-10-26 04:54 am (UTC)