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Re: hélas!
by Slava » Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:58 pm
Am I missing something, or does this post have no meaning? Was there supposed to be more that got skipped, perhaps?
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Re: hélas!
by Perry Lassiter » Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:32 pm
Helas, I think is a Spanish interjection, maybe. Monika, please elucidate.
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Re: hélas!
by Monika » Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:08 am
Doesn't it have the same or equivalent meaning as "perish"?
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Re: hélas!
by Audiendus » Sun Aug 19, 2012 7:52 am
"Hélas!" is French for "Alas!"
There is an expression "Perish the thought", but it doesn't mean quite the same as "alas".
There is an expression "Perish the thought", but it doesn't mean quite the same as "alas".
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Re: hélas!
by Perry Lassiter » Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:26 pm
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?
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