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    Quote Originally Posted by PenguinJoe View Post
    "Vive la révolution" = Long live the revolution (not a proper name - not capitalized)
    "Vive la Revolutions" = Long live the "Revolutions" (proper name - notice the capital? A play on words )
    I'm french. So i'm able to debate about this. I'm sorry, but that's grammatically wrong. If you refer to "Revolutions" as being a private server, then "server" has, in french, a masculine gender. Hence why it should be "Vive le (serveur) Revolutions" and would be way more proper grammatically. To extend on another example, we don't say "Vive La Queen Mary III", we say "Vive le (bateau) Queen Mary III", because boat in french is masculine gender. Queen Mary III is implicitly referred to a boat by métonymie and you have to apply the gender of the name to what it refers.

    If you refer to "Revolutions" as being several revolutions happening, then it should be "Vive les révolutions", eventhough saying that would enlighten us about your lack of knowledge of the french history. If you're referring to "La Révolution" (and not La revolution) then you're implicitly referring to the events that had happened on a timeframe from Le 14 Juillet 1789 (La prise de la Bastille) to Le 4 Août 1789, when the privileges of the highest french social classes were lost, referring then to Louis XIV's escape until Valmy's where he was then recognized by a guard and sent back to La Bastille accompagné par le Peuple.


    Your pick, but I wouldn't say publicly here you're running a private server, though. You'd better admit you were wrong grammatically-writing, for the least to be said.
    Last edited by OrdinoArcalis; 08-18-2014 at 10:48 AM.

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