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Re: Left click on desktop: msg#00169xfce.user
please take this discussion off-list, as it has nothing to do with xfce. plus, it's useless to those of us who don't speak french. thanks, brian Gerald Barre said: > Le Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:43:30 -0400 > purslow@xxxxxxxxxxxx s'exprimait: > > >> yes, it says 'nakedly', but i don't trust an I/net translation >> service. my scholarly dictionary (Cassell's 1920) gives only >> 'bareback' (riding); my modern dictionary (Bantam New College 1972) >> gives 'naked, bareback'& 'se metter à poil' = 'to strip to the skin', >> so it mb a more modern usage. i wd not, of course, question your >> authority re the French phrase, only your knowledge of the appropriate >> English equivalent. > > In my Larousse 1980 edition: > > monter à poil: to ride bareback > à poil: naked > se mettre à poil:to strip to the skin > I should say for the last definition it's a common way to say to > undress. > >> perhaps we cd ask the creator of Apwal what he intended ... (smile) >> > Ok. > > _______________________________________________ > Xfce mailing list > Xfce@xxxxxxxx > http://lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce > http://www.xfce.org _______________________________________________ Xfce mailing list Xfce@xxxxxxxx http://lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce http://www.xfce.org |
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