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Claire Petersky said:

According to this, then, I probably stopped coughing once the little beasty
got expelled, and then I swallowed it, without being aware of it.

I guess it sounds better that it dissolved in the stomach, where proteins
are supposed to be digested, than stuck in the mucus of bronchial tubes.

You are correct Claire.

Best,
-B

TomP said:

Elisa, I was wondering why do so many of the French have Italian
sounding last names?

There was a strong Italian immigration to France at the turn of the 20th
Century. Moreover, some parts of the South, notably Nice/Nizza, actually were
Italian cities until the later 19th Century, when they were ceded to France by
Cavour in return for services rendered in getting rid of the Austrians.
Corsica, too, likes to think of itself as having its own culture and language
but anyone can recognize that language as a thinly veiled, easily
comprehensible dialect of Italian.

But none of this has nothing to do with me. I'm a New York-born
Italian-American dual national, educated in Switzerland and the UK, living
and working in the Paris suburbs.

EFR
Ile de France

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TomP said:

Elisa, I was wondering why do so many of the French have Italian
sounding last names?

There was a strong Italian immigration to France at the turn of the 20th
Century. Moreover, some parts of the South, notably Nice/Nizza, actually

were

Quoted message said:

Italian cities until the later 19th Century, when they were ceded to

France by

Quoted message said:

Cavour in return for services rendered in getting rid of the Austrians.
Corsica, too, likes to think of itself as having its own culture and

language

Quoted message said:

but anyone can recognize that language as a thinly veiled, easily
comprehensible dialect of Italian.

But none of this has nothing to do with me. I'm a New York-born
Italian-American dual national, educated in Switzerland and the UK,

living

Quoted message said:

and working in the Paris suburbs.

EFR
Ile de France

A couple of years ago we had some tenants on the other side of the duplex,
two corsican guys, french speaking. They were nice guys, and the fact they
were corsican was very impressive to our italian landlord. They only lived
there a year, though. I called them 'the Corsican brothers'.