re Re: NP: Twain, Part One

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Wed Jan 16 07:10:15 CST 2002


Nice job, Inspector: 


 From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
 
 [[ What I want to know in re: Twain is,if Huck Finn (Ch.
 14) picked up some French by getting "some of their
 jabber out of a book," how then did he come up with
 the pronunciation "Polly-voo-franzy"?  "Par-lezz vowse
 Fran-kay-zee," maybe, but ...

 http://www.literature.org/authors/twain-mark/huckleberry/chapter-14.html

 http://www.online-literature.com/twain/huckleberry_finn/14/

 http://www.americanliterature.com/HF/HF14.HTML

 http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Mark_Twain/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn/CHAPT
 ER_XIV_p1.html

 http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/54/99/15605/1/frameset.html

 ... and I recall having similar questions about
 Tarzan's acquisition of spoken language as well ...]]]





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