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Subject: [Leica] On the Lug Gallery is Rabs- Nespa
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:41:58 -0400
 
> I agree with Tarek,
> 
> Yet, 'n'est-ce pas' is a scarcely used form nowadays, and considered
> as formal; lecturers - bad ones particulalry - use it a lot to remind
> their sleepy? audience of their existence ...  :-)
> 
> In everyday talk, you'll hear : hein?, pas vrai?, tu crois pas? etc.
> just as the British might resort to ennit, wudniah, didny, etc.
> 
> BTW saying ' *n'c'est pas* ' as first suggested would probably be
> construed as ' j'n'sai pas  = je ne sais pas', i.e I don't know or
> rather, dunno.
> 
> Bien cordialement de la partie nord de la Catalogne francophone.
> Philippe
> 
> Le 24 mars 10 ? 09:27, Tarek Charara a ?crit :


I thought je ne sais pas' meant something like "that certain something"

[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner
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