OY! YOU THREE!

[highlyeccentric]

is this is a sentence? is it preferable to the version without il y aille? is il y aille even an expression?

L’australien, il ne croit pas que il y aille quel qu’un qui soit moins cultivé qu lui.

Comments

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

I wish I could be of some assistance, but my French is about 19 years rusty and probably wouldn't have been good enough anyway.

oh, here's a question for you: what does this mean - "honi soit qui mal y pense"?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i don't know... is it french or latin? i always thought it was latin, but all the words in that except for 'honi' i recognise as french.

i should know. the SRC paper on campus is named after it.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

btw, the 'you three' yelling is at three specific members of my flist who are choosing to be unhelpful at the moment.

[gryphonvere.livejournal.com]

Hey.... sorry, but I didn't think I was of much use on this front (or am I wisely included in the "don't ask for french help" category)...

But, did some looking...... Google spits back this: Results 1 - 10 of about 9,230 for "il y aille", so I think that does exist as an expression.

Umm..... it looks right to me, but we know what's happened in the past with Lukas and his French instinct....

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

;) thanks. doesn't really matter if you're right or not, it's more a matter of avoiding one of my major stress attacks.

[gryphonvere.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

you know me, i'm a stress bunny at the best of times.

[gamurgurl.livejournal.com]

hug...i think that word is imagined!

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

the word hug?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

oh, the word aille. it IS a word, it's subjunctive avoir. that particular use of it i wasn't sure about, though. kate reckons it's a bad idea in spoken, so we reworded stuff. *loves kate lots*