> In article <c92p2r$ids$2@news-reader1.wanadoo.fr>, John of Aix
> <j.murphy@nospamlibertysurf.fr> wrote:
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>> news: 40b49d90$0$19642$626a14ce@news.free.fr...
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>> > > Is there an adjective form of the word decade? I want to describe
>> > > something that happens only once in ten years.
>> >
>> > "Decennial" is the word you need.
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>> > people seem to propagate the ill use :D)
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>> In French a decade is ten days strictly speaking and a decan ten years,
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> I don't think it's a matter of right or wrong, just who uses what, and can
> the society you live in understand what you're saying.
That's right, and have my apologies for simply putting
smilies when I seem I *should* have had sent a pre-disclaimer
then joined a disclaimer advertising final readers that I was
going to commit irreverenciously some dark and french form
of humour ...
> If I go up to
> anyone in the USA and say it's been a decade since I've seen my father,
> they are all going to think I haven't seen him in 10 years, not 10 days.
Ya dude, no beef, all american man, for sure :D)
(*MIND THE F*KIN SMILEE!*)
> Plus, I thought the questioner was asking what 'decade' meant in
> English, not in French.
Not much, he wanted some adjectival form of decade, which is
decennial, as decade is a short for "decade of years" which you'll
admit would make a very strange adjectival building pattern -)
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