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If you don't mind a few grammatical corrections in your swearing... - Edit 1

Before modification by Legolas at 20/11/2010 05:43:16 PM

The way you've written it you kind of have two reflexive pronouns - the "vas-tu" and then the s' (which should be more specific anyway, te instead of se). And then enculer should be an infinitive, not a past participle. Hence, "Vas te faire enculer" (and since the "te" is a reflexive pronoun and not a subject, it can never be "tu";). The hyphen is not required there, for the same reason, but I'm not sure if writing it is actually wrong.
Your review of the translation and its myriad pitfalls led me to the previous message, which was a lamentation of my inability to find Madame Bovary in hardcover for, as I said, "less than $100", which led to a further internet search, which led to the discovery of a Pleiade edition for only $80, which led to a purchase. I had vowed to not buy more books for some time. Now I find myself casting around and wondering how often to buy the damn editions in order to supplement my library with suitable editions of Camus, Sartre, Stendhal and Hugo.

"Only" eighty dollars? That had better be Flaubert's entire oeuvre, for that price... of course if you're gonna order from Amazon France to the US, it's true a single massively expensive order would ultimately cost less than buying them one at a time.

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