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Old November 13th 03, 10:01 AM
Jeremy Mortimer
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"Michael MacClancy" wrote in
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Isn't this where we came in? I submit that "Alpes" is slightly
commonly used in English (there is proof of this at the beginning of
this thread). Or are we to be told off for referring to Lyon?


Heehee. You may be right, I may be wrong but I don't think that
'Alpes' is even slightly commonly used in English except for Les Deux
Alpes. And, looking at the spellings again, Lyon and Marseille seem
distinctly odd when written in English.


That's because you live in the UK (I assume). I live in Geneva, and the
French spelling seems much more natural to me. It's just a question of
familiarity.

There's also confusion between languages. I don't know if this happens with
people who work in German (Simon?) but I continually muddle French and
English words when I speak or write, since I work partly in French. I could
quite easily write "Alpes" by accident in English.

It's all communication, anyway - there's no point in getting worked up
about how people choose to express themselves. And this is Usenet - there
are far worse abuses of English anywhere you look.

L8r :-)

Jeremy
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Old November 13th 03, 10:27 AM
Michael MacClancy
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"Jeremy Mortimer" wrote in message
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There's also confusion between languages. I don't know if this happens

with
people who work in German (Simon?) but I continually muddle French and
English words when I speak or write, since I work partly in French. I

could
quite easily write "Alpes" by accident in English.

It's all communication, anyway - there's no point in getting worked up
about how people choose to express themselves. And this is Usenet - there
are far worse abuses of English anywhere you look.

L8r :-)

Jeremy


I've never found that I muddle German and English words when speaking German
or English or muddle French and English words when speaking French or
English. I do, however, have a tendency to use German words when trying to
speak French. I think it's because I'm considerably more familiar with
German than French and, when looking for a French word that I don't know,
tend to fall upon a German one because I know it's not English.

My wife does the same.
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Michael MacClancy


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Old November 13th 03, 11:41 AM
Dominique Foucart
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"Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote in message om...
The SNCF site lists a zillion countries you can have tickets sent to... but
*not* the US. It appears they may have a contract with RailEurope to handle
sales to the US. If there is a way to deal with SNCF directly (from the
US), please let me know... I'd love to take advantage of it!

Perhaps there's a way to order on-line and pick them up in France?


Indeed... you can order your tickets online and have them waiting you
in your Paris departure station (Gare de Lyon). Just use the "pick-up
tickets in France" option.

Best Regards,
Dominique Foucart
www.samoens.int.ms - hiking, skiing and appartment rental in Haute
Savoie
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Old November 15th 03, 07:25 PM
Carl_M
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Perhaps there's a way to order on-line and pick them up in France?


Indeed... you can order your tickets online and have them waiting you
in your Paris departure station (Gare de Lyon). Just use the "pick-up
tickets in France" option.

You can also print your own ticket, the ticket will have your name and
date of birth and you need to show photo id when you board the train.
I've printed my ticket but not used it yet so I don't know how it will
work but I dont see a problem.
 




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