dd: From Dodgson to Dodo (Reader Comments and Addenda)
I ought to have said "an ideologically correct student" rather than "a conscientious student." Oh, well, esprit d'escalier and all that.
Pierre Abbat once found a question and its answer on the same page of a Farsi dictionary:
cheqadr? chahel. (how many? forty.)
He adds: "What is really striking is that this could as easily be true of their Spanish translations: cuantos? cuarenta."
(Last updated: 17 March 1998)