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...available translations, of which the Harvard Dramatic Club has found a particularly unauthentic specimen. Thomas Austey Guthrie's conception of Moliere necessitates the frequent addition of his own prose, as well as incorrect and unidiomatic translation of the text itself. What reason could there be for translating "Parleral-je haut?" as "Is it permitted to speak in Madamo's presence...
...cluster of peasant houses sported a half-dozen flags, both Italian and Yugoslav. The flags were made of silk from parachutes we had used to drop food and supplies to the Partisans when they were fighting the Germans. On every building there were red stars and signs reading: "Tukaj je Jugoslavia" (This is Yugoslavia) and "Zivjo Tito" (Long live Tito...
Borotra, the Bounding Basque of tennis, slapped his chest, cried derisively: "Me dangerous? Come, come." Said lean, sickly General Weygand: "Je m'en fou" ("I don't give a damn"). He added: "This animal isn't vicious, but when attacked it defends itself...
...When a local girl told a Frenchman she slept in the same bed with her roommate, his eyebrows rose; finally someone explained what a roommate is. Another gave a hopeful start when a proper young Orangeburger at a party one warm night remarked in her best high-school French: "Je suis chaud" (literally, "I am warm," idiomatically, "I'm feeling sexy...
...This is our first class in a long time. There is much to do. All that is needed is a very good will. . . . When a French soldier asks you the way, you will be able to smile and say, Je vous montrerai le chemin-I will show...