Six word memoir

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ofnuts
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>> Champ wrote:
>>> Heard this on R4 yesterday.
>>> Ernest Hemmingway apparently bet someone he could write a story using
>>> only six words, he subsequently submitted the following example:
>>> - For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
>>> Based on this, a publisher has produced a book full of six word
>>> memoirs, called "Not quite what I was planning". Details here
>>> http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
>>> Amusing examples include:
>>> - Met true love. Married someone else.
>>> - Wasn't born a redhead. Fixed that.
>>> - After Harvard, had baby with crackhead.
>>> All good stuff. So after the briefest consideration, here's mine:
>>> - Mostly in wrong order. Better perhaps?
>>
>> Can it be done in French?
>
> Non. Ce n'est pas possible. Désolé.
>

Ca fait plus de six mots!(*)


(*) "n'est" is two words
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>Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ofnuts
>><o.f.n.u.t.s.RemoveThis@la.poste.net> typed
>>> Champ wrote:
>>>> Heard this on R4 yesterday.
>>>> Ernest Hemmingway apparently bet someone he could write a story using
>>>> only six words, he subsequently submitted the following example:
>>>> - For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
>>>> Based on this, a publisher has produced a book full of six word
>>>> memoirs, called "Not quite what I was planning". Details here
>>>> http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
>>>> Amusing examples include:
>>>> - Met true love. Married someone else.
>>>> - Wasn't born a redhead. Fixed that.
>>>> - After Harvard, had baby with crackhead.
>>>> All good stuff. So after the briefest consideration, here's mine:
>>>> - Mostly in wrong order. Better perhaps?
>>>
>>> Can it be done in French?
>> Non. Ce n'est pas possible. Désolé.
>>
>
>Ca fait plus de six mots!(*)
>
>
>(*) "n'est" is two words

Au contraire!

If "isn't" is allowed, then "n'est" certainly is.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

My position was (and, to be honest, largely remains) one of complete ambiguity.