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>>>> Pandora > wrote:
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>>>>> Truffles are so precious that you must not waste them to make simple
>>>>> recipes
>>>>> with simple ingredients such as eggs.
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>>>> Why? As far as I'm concerned, it is exactly because they are precious
>>>> that they ought to be enjoyed mostly for the own sake. Eggs are a
>>>> perfect vehicle, no different from simple pasta in this regard. Like
>>>> pasta, they provide a nice, neutral background to underline the flavour
>>>> and aroma of truffles. The very best truffle dish I have ever had was
>>>> "oeuf mollet aux truffes", a soft-boiled, shelled egg with truffles, in
>>>> the Dordogne (Périgord-Quercy) region of France. To me, it opened up
>>>> the "essence" of truffles.
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>>>> Victor
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>>> Perhaps is like you say, but pasta or risotto are better, IMHO, to exalt
>>> the "essence" (as you call it).
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>>> cheers
>>> Pandora
>> Pandora, may I compliment you on your English. You sentence and
>> punctuation are better than a lot of English-speaking persons.
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> I'm deeply moved to here that! Thank you!
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>> No one so far has corrected your English and you have absorbed how others
>> write when they are write as if they are speaking.
>> There is only one little word missing in your sentence. It is after
>> "perhaps," can you guess what it is?
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> Yes! I should have write :"Perhaps it is.."
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> I'm writing this as a compliment and my
>> amazement as to how you've improved your English.
>> Dee Dee
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> Thank you very much Dee Dee. You are very kind!
> yes, sometimes I read words that I don't understand because some people
> uses, very often, to cut them. For example the word "though" is often
> written as you pronounce it:"tho".
> Is it true?
> Pandora
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People write "tho" for "though."
Also, they will write 'thru' for "through." As in: Jan thru Feb

Dee Dee