Ah nons!

[desperance]

I just heard a French minister talking about the problems of "les open-bars" and "le binge-drinking". We can haz Academie?

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[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Argh! The end of civilization as we know it.

[timill]

Ici on parle Franglais...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

'Zackly. (Fortunately, civilisation still lurks in fiction; I was staying with m'friend la_marquise_de_ in Cambridge this weekend - whose novel Living With Ghosts might interest you, by the way - and in her bookshelves, next to her copy of Swordspoint, was a photocopy of a Riverside story I hadn't read. Yay...)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Aha! I just read the review of her book, and am now eager to read it!

Was the story "'A Wild and Wicked Youth'"? And did you actually read it?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

'Course I read it! I love Riverside, me. Not that story, tho'. To my shame, I can't remember the title; it was published in F&SF (I think?), and featured a girl who wanted Richard to teach her to fight...

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Hey, we designate phenomena by the terms their inventors created. Sounds fair... ^_________^

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's ancient: "The Swordsman whose Name was not Death." One of my faves. It & 2 others were reprinted at the back of the 2004 U.S. edition of SWORDSPOINT, so I keep thinking everyone's read them by now. So glad to know you were still able to find it!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

omg - do you 2 actually know each other?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

But of course! Patrick has never translated me; I like people who leave my words alone. The minute, the very minute he starts mucking around with 'em, I'll tell you, this relationship is over...

(Also, he came to see my play! From France! To South Shields!)

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's a frighteningly small world.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

How did he pronounce "binge"?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

True love.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

He said binge, I expect. Not bing, if that's what you expected. ^_____^

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I was wondering whether it would have been "banje".

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Naaah, that's well within the grasp everybody in France has of the basics of English pronounciation. On the other hand, they will talk about Speedairmann or Sarah Pahlinn.