<ian.thompson~at~ges.gla.ac.uk> schrieb:
> Ralf,
> In French the word "génie" refers to engineers...in this case the civil
> engineers who built the bridge. Génie is often qualified by an adjective
> e.g. "génie rural" "génie civil" etc.
Thank you, Ian, yes, that's the point.
But do English people actually understand "genius" in the same way
in English?
Kind regards,
Ralf
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Received on Wed 05 Sep 2007 - 13:37:33 IDT
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