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hélas!
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:19 pm
by Monika
perish
Re: hélas!
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:58 pm
by Slava
Am I missing something, or does this post have no meaning? Was there supposed to be more that got skipped, perhaps?
Re: hélas!
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:32 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Helas, I think is a Spanish interjection, maybe. Monika, please elucidate.
Re: hélas!
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:08 am
by Monika
Doesn't it have the same or equivalent meaning as "perish"?
Re: hélas!
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 7:52 am
by Audiendus
"Hélas!" is French for "Alas!"
There is an expression "Perish the thought", but it doesn't mean quite the same as "alas".
Re: hélas!
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:26 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Monika, I think Audiendus got what I was trying to remember. I tried helas on babelfish with a couple of languages, as well as perish, but couldn't find the correspondence. How did it come up?