 |
| Les émotions des gens qu'on a cessé d'aimer paraissent toujours un peu ridicules // There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love |
Oscar Wilde said many interesting things.
Today I suddenly realized that the use of "one" as a pronoun in English could originate from "on" in French, used there more or less as "we". Wikipedia confirms.
No comments:
Post a Comment