Maigret? Spoken bourgeois French usually being more precise and formal than American English, it demands that the translator reproduce the dignities without giving an incorrect impression of formality, as happened when Hemingway insisted on rendering the familiar second person in Spanish as thou. Offering the more formal tone of French small talk without making it sound too mannered is an art, mostly well executed in these new translations
My luggage fell off, and was hit by the car behind (which didn't bother to stop) and dragged off down the road
"I certainly hope for the many people who will see them that this will remind them of things that, frankly, have been forgotten over time," Koval said
[1] The data reveal the importance of the convenience store to the tobacco industry as it is a primary channel for tobacco product distribution
For the most part, these are not liberal democracies, in that they do not privilege free enterprises over free people