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January 30

Need help with an old French book

Hi! I want to ask about a book by Jacques Dubois, who published a French grammar named In linguam gallicam isagōge, una cum eiusdem Grammatica latino-gallica, ex hebræis, græcis et latinis authoribus in 1531. I've also seen on Wikimedia a photo of a book described as Illustrissimae Galliarum Reginae Helianorae, 1531, which seems to be published by the same publisher in the same year. Can I confirm that this is the same book or different?This French book on museum collections looks like it might have the answer on page 272 (p. 298 of the pdf), but I want to make sure my reading is correct. I need to know for a gallery I'm putting together on an unrelated topic so I would like to know, but I don't speak French or Latin. Blythwood (talk) 17:15, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be the same, the picture is from the book's dedication (the lower part) to this queen.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 17:55, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Another online version here (the lower part). --Pp.paul.4 (talk) 18:36, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In case it's not clear, "Illustrissimae Galliarum Reginae Helianorae ..." is the heading of the dedication in Dubois's Isagoge, not the title of a separate book. Deor (talk) 09:13, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A mistake? (in spelling in a fanfic video on the rise of Insoc from Orwell's 1984)

Hi!
In the following video at ten seconds before the end is a strange sentence: Eurasia and Oceania have forned.
Is this a mistake and formed is meant or is this a word I don't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyIaivxZMPE#t=0.741
Skyscraper1996 (talk) 20:04, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's a mistake. It's supposed to be "formed". They likely missed it because the font that they are using makes the "rn" look like an "m" if you read it quickly. Dismas|^(talk) 20:07, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I read it slowly. Then in the following video at the beginning the word widens is written in the text, but I'm not sure that I understand it. What does it actually mean ? I find it as a verb, but here it's clearly used as a noun.--Skyscraper1996 (talk) 20:14, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The full sentence is "Sino-Eurasian relations seem to grow worse as the split between the two widens." "Widens" is a verb here - its subject is "split". It could also be written "the split between the two becomes wider." Tevildo (talk) 20:30, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]