#sidenote francophones i've never been sure about this. when you say years do you always say mille neuf cent etc etc | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

coquelicoq · 4 months ago

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Légendes rustiques, in Promenade dans le Berry, prés. George LUBIN, Éd. Complexe, 1992. Histoire de ma vie, in Œuvres autobiographiques, prés. Georges LUBIN, Gallimard (La Pléïade), 1970-1971.

what the HELL is the word "in" doing in this french bibliography?????

#entire book is in french...published and printed in france...it's the FIFTY-FIRST edition so presumably if it were a typo they would have #caught it before now...what the hell is happening #it does this a couple other times in the bibliography too i just didn't feel like typing them all out #any time it cites a work that is found in another work it uses 'in'. which is not a french preposition to my knowledge!!!!#i feel sure i haven't seen this in any other french bibliographies #and i've read a lot of french bibliographies #i read them to practice saying dates. but hilariously the bibliography i was reading today i got a page and a half in #before i realized i'd been pronouncing 19-- as mille huit cent instead of mille neuf cent 😩#it's because just before this i was reading the chronology of george sand's life and of course all the dates in that are in the 1800s #sidenote francophones i've never been sure about this. when you say years do you always say mille neuf cent etc etc #or do you ever shorten it somehow? like in english how we say nineteen instead of one thousand nine hundred #french #my posts

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