RELEASED: allout-vim 031229

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Jan 1 11:02:18 EST 2004


[Alexander Schmolck]
> François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > In French, we easily use "formidable" to describe a girl who is
> > wonderfully sympathetic and/or attractive.

> I think sympathetic is another of those false friends :)

Indeed, thanks!!  I just looked it up in a dictionary...

I meant "friendly" or "nice" (yet "nice" is a bit ambiguous).  One may
likely translate French "formidable" with English "fantastic":

   Python is fantastic.
   Python, c'est formidable!

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard




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