[blml] claim

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 10:02 7/07/2006 +0100, tim wrote:

>*Apologies to French speakers if I have butchered my translation somehow
>but I believe tonal interrogatives are fairly common over there.

You have it right, but we'd consider this as a question, hence a 
conditional claim, as in
"Les coeurs sont bons. L'impasse pique mArche ?" (hearts do run. WhAt about 
the spade
  f Inesse?) meaning e.g. 10 or 11 tricks according to the lie of the spade 
honour.

Here, a rising inflection would mean "12 tricks unless the spades aren't 
running".

They aren't.

Regards

   Alain