<Qboid>
Sigma88: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
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<Sigma88>
!slap egg
* Qboid
kicks egg out of the window
<egg>
huh, Gargantua and Pantagruel
<egg>
speaking of which I should get on with reading that, it's fun
<Sigma88>
forum down again?
<Sigma88>
reading what?
<egg>
Pantagruel (and Gargantua, and the third book, and the fourth book, and the fifth book)
<Sigma88>
ah
<egg>
(at some point Rabelais got less creative with the book titles :-p)
<Sigma88>
forums down again?
<egg>
works here
<Sigma88>
oh they are actually called that
<Sigma88>
LOL
<Sigma88>
ok. that's just the short name
<egg>
yeah, but in old french the words for third and fourth (ordinals) are the same as for the fractions (third and fourth), so it sounds like the "third part of book" and "the quarter book"
<Sigma88>
full name is more creative
<Sigma88>
it's the same in italian
<egg>
what's the same in italian?
<Sigma88>
ordinal numbers are called like fractions
<egg>
yeah
<egg>
in french they used two, but 3 and 4 diverged
<Sigma88>
ah
<egg>
so tiers -> troisième, quart -> quatrième for the ordinals (and then it's cinquième for both ordinals and fractions)
<Sigma88>
so quart is quarter, while quatrième is fourth ?
<egg>
yup
<egg>
except if you speak french of the sixteenth century, there it's all quart :D
<Sigma88>
ah so he meant 4th not 1/4
<egg>
yes
<egg>
Sigma88: yeah, the full name is more creative, but it's still all the same name: the (3rd|4th|5th) book of the heroic deeds and sayings of the good Pantagruel :-p
<Sigma88>
yes, so he became less creative only for the 4th and 5th :D
<egg>
è vero
<Sigma88>
I think the last french book I read was montecristo
<Sigma88>
not sure how the original name was
<Sigma88>
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
<Sigma88>
but I read it in italian, because I can't be bothered :D
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<Thomas>
o/
<Qboid>
Thomas: Sigma88 left a message for you in #Kopernicus [22.03.2017 09:35:57]: "have you tried this? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/157255--/ is it any good?"
<Sigma88>
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