Trollheart

I find this often happens. It shows one more page than there is, so as you say, no, you can't get to it because technically speaking it doesn't exist. Not until someone makes a post. Like you did. And now it's live.

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Marie Monday

yep regularly happens to me too. this trashy website lol

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TheBig3

Well it's 8 posts a page. But rather than have a page with one post, it seems to house a 9th post on a page until a 10th exists.

No idea why, and I'm sure there's a wonky html reason, but that's how it was back when I was a younger man. But I've never noticed it produces a new page number in the bottom right.

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adidasss

Never happened to me, but this thread is on page 249 for me so I guess I have different settings.

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Lisnaholic

Yes, I've had that same experience: click on the last page number shown in that little row of boxes, and it throws you back to the previous page.
At first I thought it meant that someone was at that very moment posting or editing a message, but as it can stay that way for a long time, I rejected my theory although I had nothing to replace it with.
Currently reading Voodoo Histories, about conspiracy theories, I now realize that it is a glitch caused by the CIA/Mossad monitoring of MB.

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rubber soul

At my old forum, we used to call them gremlins. I suspect a lot of forum have that problem with pages.

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TheBig3

That poor intern.

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The Batlord

No wonder Merit got banned.

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jadis

What the French call l'Âge classique (from late 16th to early 18th centuries) does have the advantage of "linguistic purity": the vocabulary is "soutenu" and restricted (Roland Barthes called Racine "l’homme aux deux mille mots") so knowing the few thousand Latinate words that are used in the literary registers of English gets you a long way. On the flip side, it's highly stylized and many of the words are used in ways that are subtly different from contemporary French, so I wouldn't focus on that era unless you want to be a scholar of French classicism or something.

I would avoid the 19th century: everyone thinks they're going to enjoy Madame Bovary or the Three Musketeers but it's full of lengthy descriptions of stuff like taverns and horses and chapels where you'll have to look up 5 words in every sentence. Impractical.

Many of the people I know who made the biggest progress in French started by reading plenty of nonfiction: it's just simpler than literary fiction and you can get it from wherever. From news agencies on Twitter to biographies of celebrities you like. Someone I know took herself to a new level by reading on her phone a French translation of an English-language Cure biography she found as an ebook (on Google's book app, whatever it's called) cause she was a Cure fan and knew a lot about them already, so she could figure out a lot from context as opposed to looking up every single word she didn't know.

rostasi

Can't seem to get to page 746. Making a post to see if it's me or the internet.