In a message dated 99-11-17 12:03:32 EST, you write:
<< O Contraire, ma frere, it strikes this reader as a sentence which makes
>perfect gramatical--and, therefore, rational--sense.
Perhaps Oriens should have been addressed as 'ma pere' >>
Actually, neither, it should be mon frere or mon pere: both are still
masculine.
BTW, do the French address their priests as "father"?
mark
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