Because the French have no word for 'l'esprit de l'escalier'.
(With thanks to the Guardian's 'education' pages...)
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- In translation
- Favourite footnotes: 7
- Samuel Palmer - in context
- The lives of other writers
- And other things never overheard at the Royal Mili...
- How to use the hyphen
- Less is more or less
- 'Life is too short for Martin Amis.'
- Favourite foreign onomatopoeia - 13
- West Country small ads
- 'To write a beautiful ya' / Favourite foreign onom...
- Books I've actually finished lately: 66
- These things also happen
- These things happen
- InDefinition - 74
- How it's done
- Favourite footnotes: 6
- Books I've actually finished lately: 65
- Books I've actually finished lately: 64
- Things I did NOT see myself doing (just yet)
- Books I've actually finished lately: 63
- Greatest line ever dropped casually into a curricu...
- An apology
- "Also, make note of the word 'gobbledygook'..."
- One way to improve JD Salinger
- Substitution
- 'Trepverter'
- Running 'free'
- Tremendous author bio
- Found in books - 6
- James Joyce - in context
- Acknowledgements
- Books I've actually finished lately: 62
- Favourite footnotes: 5
- Fair dos to Facebook
- Keystroke twins - 31/32 (for my Sri Lankan brethren)
- Books I've actually finished lately: 61
- Books I've actually finished lately: 60
- Books I've actually finished (again) lately: 59
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