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I am afraid of imperfection

I am entirely déranged by my tendancy of late to say "J'étais en train de..." instead of just putting a verb into the imparfait. Half the time I want to say that I was doing something, not even that I was in the middle of doing it. I know it's wrong chaque fois que ça sort, but it won't stop. It reminds me of those awful translated-Anglicisms I abhor, like when Molly used to say "J'étais comme...", translating "I was like..." literally. Make it stop!

srah - Monday, 24 March 2003 - 2:55 PM
Tags: in french

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