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Re: Hector Servadac
From: Jan Rychlík <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:15:04 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>
> > 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?
Most probably not, they use the word engineers.
Jan
Received on Wed 05 Sep 2007 - 14:15:07 IDT
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