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Hannibal_Barca_ t1_jdyk5vd wrote

Reply to comment by RandomRobot in Is this what French people look like? by Ajxyn

I think its just a vocabulary book for beginners. If you take the sentence from the perspective of learning a new language there are a few complexities in it.

  1. "allonge" aka extend is semi beginner word because of how verbs work in french
  2. the "n'" then "pas" is part of how a negative is presented in the language
  3. au-dela is... in french there are more specific terms for what the subject and object is and what people are pointing at/referring to.

It's constructed for pedagogic reasons.

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