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From: Joe Bananas< >
Subject: Re: What does my name mean??
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 03:54:23 GMT


On Sat, 1 May 1999 22:47:45 -0400, "Heather" <>
wrote:

>For your info, I am fairly fluent in French, but as "court" was so obvious,
>I was deferring to someone fluently bilingual.
>
I'm not fluently bilingual, though I am a cunning linguist. Does that
count?

>Poor thing....you must be so bored now that you can't rant and rave about
>charters. Are you just going to be a dilettante until the 6 months are up?
>That was french BTW.
>
Actually, if you are referring to "dilettante," it is Italian, the
present participle of "dilettare" meaning "to delight." But nice try.

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