Gai pied Gai pied Gai pied or Gai pied hebdo was a monthly French gay magazine, founded by Jean Le Bitoux. Its name, which literally means "Gay foot", is a homophone of "guêpier", which means a hornet's nest or, figuratively, a trap or pitfall — a reference to the magazine's determination to torment the status-quo. The magazine's name was suggested by Michel Foucault, who wrote an article for the first issue and continued to contribute material to the magazine throughout its existence. The first issue was sold at two thousand kiosks throughout France on 1 April 1979. It was published by Pink
Pied-piping Apparently, the Left Branch Condition is absent from Russian. The second example illustrating variation in pied-piping across languages is from German. Relative pronouns in German at times have the option to pied-pipe a governing "zu"-infinitive when they are fronted, e.g. The a-sentence has the relative pronoun "das" pied-piping the zu-infinitive "zu lesen" to the front of the relative clause, whereas this pied-piping does not occur in the b-sentence. Since both variants are acceptable, pied-piping in such cases is optional. In English in contrast, pied-piping in such constellations is impossible, e.g. "*the book which to read I tried" and "*the book