French term
United States
Laudable Lady Linguist
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
Étrange anachronisme que personne ne songea
Les autres comprirent très vite que toute résistance était inutile. Ils se rendirent ; trois cent cinquante hommes quittèrent la terrasse pour être amenés dans la cour Carrée du Louvre devenue camp de ras- semblement pour les prisonniers faits par la 2e DB ; ils y retrouvèrent de nombreux camarades. Étrange anachronisme que leur présence dans ce décor, précieux comme un témoignage de continuité, auquel dans l’exaltation du moment personne ne songea.
Merci Beaucoup,
Barbara
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Katarina Peters
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Nov 14, 2021 18:05: Michele Fauble changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
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Proposed translations
Canada
Accuracy and A1 presentation
Native in: Hungarian , English (Variant: US)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Hungarian to English, and 13 more.
a strange anachronism that no one would have ever thought of
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SafeTex
: the second part of the sentence in the past simple perhaps?
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yes, you are right
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Verginia Ophof
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Thank you, Verginia :)
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Jennifer White
: ever have.............
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Thank you Jennifer, of course...
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Victoria Britten
: I don't know where "would ever have" comes from.
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to emphasize...
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writeaway
: Agree with colleauges. The conditional is absolutely wrong and so a mistranslation. 'Songea' is passé siimple/But this also changed the meaning of the Fr
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maybe so... but I took liberties to stress the point
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Lara Barnett
: As per my discussion post, how could this phrase begin the sentence ? This is the reason for the provision of extra context.
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Discussion
THerefore, my "agree" so far goes with the discussion post below mine!
(I would say "that nobody, in the heat of the moment, had so much as considered."