- "le travail rend libre" (one of the offical videos, first sentence) For those who don't know French, le travail rend libre means the same as Arbeit macht frei, the motto of the Auschwitz concentration camp — i.e. "Work makes one free". It seems that Sarkozy is practising dog-whistle politics.
Although Linux distros have many flaws, they have nothing to do with the reason why most people and businesses use Windows.
Linux and Open Source are new as a mature software solution. Microsoft started dominating the market many years ago now. If everyone bought computers today and gave them to employees that had never used a computer before, then of course we would win. But that is not the situation. Companies have documents in Word format; they have employees who think the big blue e equals the internet; people have paid for licences already. It will take time, but we will win.
I still don't know what you're talking about. I'm a student of Chinese and Japanese, and I always use ODT in OpenOffice.org for all my vocabulary lists, etc. The only problem I have encountered is that Ruby (furigana) annotations are not handled in the same way in MS Office, so I can't always convert documents; but that's a minor point.
These three airships that Caracas town council has just bought from South Korea (and hope to begin using in late 2007) are essentially mobile cameras. They are not really any more or less disturbing than the proliferation of CCTV cameras in our cities.
As a civil libertarian, I am in favour of strict limits on the amount of video surveillance that we are subject to, but I do not wish to jump to conclusions regarding a city council who are no doubt making a good-faith attempt to reduce crime in a very dangerous area.
Above all, this should not be used as a vile pretext to demonise President Hugo Chávez, who, despite his myriad flaws, is the leader with the strongest democratic support anywhere in the New World. Bear in mind, in particular, that the argument "many dictators started off by being elected" can be used against any elected president in the entire world, and is therefore worthless.
Of course ODF can handle Chinese characters, just like anything that supports Unicode. You'd be hard pressed to find a modern word-processing format that cannot contain Chinese characters.
Get a better bank.
I'm with ANZ, and have no trouble logging in using Firefox, Epiphany or Opera on PCLinuxOS. It fails in Konqueror, Lynx and Links though.
I work at a college, and the students are constantly creating noise pollution in the corridors by playing loud music from their mobile phones, as well as taking photos with them, or even making phone calls.
What is this tendency that I have observed over the last few years whereby people start to think that the plural of any "difficult" word must end in "-ii"? Only Latin words ending in "-ius" have plurals in "-ii".
The plural of the Greek (''polis'', meaning city) is (''poleis''). However, in English you're better off writing "metropolises" than "metropoleis", as the latter will not be understood.
I don't think Gnome and KDE should merge (it's cool to be able to choose between them), but I definitely agree that they should work together more and share ideas. To take one trivial example, I want KDE to have the ability to stretch icons as on Gnome.
Subordinate phrases should not be hoisted in front of principal ones in French.
Hmmm, that doesn't seem to be true to me. In both languages they can go before or after. After may be more common, but I wanted the emphasis gained by putting it before.
Comme is used for "as in" or "like", as a comparative.
Indeed it is. But are you unaware of its other uses? At the beginning of a sentence it can be causal, translated as "because", "since" or "as".
Car is synonymous with and substitutable for parce que
Yep, car is the equivalent of comme, the difference being that car introduces following subordinate clauses, whereas comme introduces preceding subordinate clauses.
In your principal clause, Je passe mon temps à + inf. is OK idiom, but a rearrangement feels more natural: Je passe mon temps sur Slashdot, à répéter les clichés...
What I put seems the most natural to me. If I have a look on Google, stuff like Je passe mon temps sur le net à surfer get far fewer results than stuff like Je passe mon temps à surfer sur le net. And certainly what I wanted to say was "I spend my time repeating clichés on Slashdot", not "I spend my time on Slashdot repeating clichés".
hyper chiants (no hyphen).
Yeah, I am a bit non-standard with my hyphen usage. I can't bear to completely separate it from the noun when I know it is a prefix in origin.
greek affixes in common use in American English but seen relatively rarely in French
I don't speak American English, but I did live in Bordeaux a few years ago and chat online with young French people; and I observed that super and hyper were common slang intensifying adverbs. One could also say très or vachement. They've probably totally fallen out of fashion now, and I am probably out of date, but my use of them has nothing to do with science fiction, American English, French Slashdots, or anything similar.
clichés crasseux or perhaps clichés débiles I don't think it really matters whether I said chiant or débile. The main point was to correct stuff like "Je, pour une, bienvenu notre nouvelle ONVI maitre!" or "acceullir" or "secoupe", which was way, way off.
How about:...
I would like to second you on that. OpenOffice.org is outclassed by Abiword and KWord in terms of speed. I use all three programs, depending on my needs at the time. I also have MS Word just in case, but I never need it.
I too have had similar experiences. I have repaired both Word documents and Powerpoint presentations that would no longer open in their native applications, by opening and saving them in OpenOffice.org.
No, the Americans won. The objective was to crush successful independent development in South-East Asia. They were indeed driven out, but only after achieving the objective.
I really hate that cliché. All it takes is for an American to hear something about a foreign country and they say "How do you say [insert something vaguely appropriate] in [insert language of the country]?". The assumption is that nobody will actually know the answer to the question, which therefore becomes rhetorical.
Not to mention that the post that was supposed to need modding up contained nothing but another cliché, crappily translated into French. But wait, I "must be new here", right?
No, I don't think that it was a reference to Austin Powers. I used to think so, but I believe I have seen some earlier occurrences of the meme in American culture [sic]. It also doesn't make sense as a reference to the film; if Powers has ugly teeth, it would make more sense to associate that with being a 1960s spy or something like that.
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I also loved Royal's, "If you vote conservative, their will be riots," method.
What's wrong with that? There have been riots in recent years in France, and Sarkozy promises to exacerbate the causes of them.For those who don't know French, le travail rend libre means the same as Arbeit macht frei, the motto of the Auschwitz concentration camp — i.e. "Work makes one free". It seems that Sarkozy is practising dog-whistle politics.
A learning curve and a hill are not the same thing. A difficult hill is steep, but a difficult learning curve is so shallow that it forms a plateau.
Although Linux distros have many flaws, they have nothing to do with the reason why most people and businesses use Windows.
Linux and Open Source are new as a mature software solution. Microsoft started dominating the market many years ago now. If everyone bought computers today and gave them to employees that had never used a computer before, then of course we would win. But that is not the situation. Companies have documents in Word format; they have employees who think the big blue e equals the internet; people have paid for licences already. It will take time, but we will win.
I still don't know what you're talking about. I'm a student of Chinese and Japanese, and I always use ODT in OpenOffice.org for all my vocabulary lists, etc. The only problem I have encountered is that Ruby (furigana) annotations are not handled in the same way in MS Office, so I can't always convert documents; but that's a minor point.
These three airships that Caracas town council has just bought from South Korea (and hope to begin using in late 2007) are essentially mobile cameras. They are not really any more or less disturbing than the proliferation of CCTV cameras in our cities.
As a civil libertarian, I am in favour of strict limits on the amount of video surveillance that we are subject to, but I do not wish to jump to conclusions regarding a city council who are no doubt making a good-faith attempt to reduce crime in a very dangerous area.
Above all, this should not be used as a vile pretext to demonise President Hugo Chávez, who, despite his myriad flaws, is the leader with the strongest democratic support anywhere in the New World. Bear in mind, in particular, that the argument "many dictators started off by being elected" can be used against any elected president in the entire world, and is therefore worthless.
(Additional information from this article in Spanish.)
Of course ODF can handle Chinese characters, just like anything that supports Unicode. You'd be hard pressed to find a modern word-processing format that cannot contain Chinese characters.
Get a better bank. I'm with ANZ, and have no trouble logging in using Firefox, Epiphany or Opera on PCLinuxOS. It fails in Konqueror, Lynx and Links though.
I work at a college, and the students are constantly creating noise pollution in the corridors by playing loud music from their mobile phones, as well as taking photos with them, or even making phone calls.
Shit, if I hadn't accidentally hit "Submit" instead of "Preview", I would have seen that the Greek that I wrote was deleted by the Slashdot system.
What is this tendency that I have observed over the last few years whereby people start to think that the plural of any "difficult" word must end in "-ii"? Only Latin words ending in "-ius" have plurals in "-ii".
The plural of the Greek (''polis'', meaning city) is (''poleis''). However, in English you're better off writing "metropolises" than "metropoleis", as the latter will not be understood.
I don't think Gnome and KDE should merge (it's cool to be able to choose between them), but I definitely agree that they should work together more and share ideas. To take one trivial example, I want KDE to have the ability to stretch icons as on Gnome.
Hmmm, that doesn't seem to be true to me. In both languages they can go before or after. After may be more common, but I wanted the emphasis gained by putting it before.
Comme is used for "as in" or "like", as a comparative.Indeed it is. But are you unaware of its other uses? At the beginning of a sentence it can be causal, translated as "because", "since" or "as".
Car is synonymous with and substitutable for parce queYep, car is the equivalent of comme, the difference being that car introduces following subordinate clauses, whereas comme introduces preceding subordinate clauses.
In your principal clause, Je passe mon temps à + inf. is OK idiom, but a rearrangement feels more natural: Je passe mon temps sur Slashdot, à répéter les clichésWhat I put seems the most natural to me. If I have a look on Google, stuff like Je passe mon temps sur le net à surfer get far fewer results than stuff like Je passe mon temps à surfer sur le net. And certainly what I wanted to say was "I spend my time repeating clichés on Slashdot", not "I spend my time on Slashdot repeating clichés".
hyper chiants (no hyphen).Yeah, I am a bit non-standard with my hyphen usage. I can't bear to completely separate it from the noun when I know it is a prefix in origin.
greek affixes in common use in American English but seen relatively rarely in FrenchI don't speak American English, but I did live in Bordeaux a few years ago and chat online with young French people; and I observed that super and hyper were common slang intensifying adverbs. One could also say très or vachement. They've probably totally fallen out of fashion now, and I am probably out of date, but my use of them has nothing to do with science fiction, American English, French Slashdots, or anything similar.
clichés crasseux or perhaps clichés débiles I don't think it really matters whether I said chiant or débile. The main point was to correct stuff like "Je, pour une, bienvenu notre nouvelle ONVI maitre!" or "acceullir" or "secoupe", which was way, way off. How about:Bah, that just showing off!
I would like to second you on that. OpenOffice.org is outclassed by Abiword and KWord in terms of speed. I use all three programs, depending on my needs at the time. I also have MS Word just in case, but I never need it.
I too have had similar experiences. I have repaired both Word documents and Powerpoint presentations that would no longer open in their native applications, by opening and saving them in OpenOffice.org.
Just look it up!
What are you talking about? Flash is faster than hard disks.
No, the Americans won. The objective was to crush successful independent development in South-East Asia. They were indeed driven out, but only after achieving the objective.
"Je" is very seldom separated from its verb.
Here's a better stab at it: Moi, je souhaite la bienvenue à nos nouveaux maîtres extraterrestres.
Or better still: Comme je suis complètement con, je passe mon temps à répéter des clichés hyper-chiants sur Slashdot.
I really hate that cliché. All it takes is for an American to hear something about a foreign country and they say "How do you say [insert something vaguely appropriate] in [insert language of the country]?". The assumption is that nobody will actually know the answer to the question, which therefore becomes rhetorical.
Not to mention that the post that was supposed to need modding up contained nothing but another cliché, crappily translated into French. But wait, I "must be new here", right?
No, I don't think that it was a reference to Austin Powers. I used to think so, but I believe I have seen some earlier occurrences of the meme in American culture [sic]. It also doesn't make sense as a reference to the film; if Powers has ugly teeth, it would make more sense to associate that with being a 1960s spy or something like that.
That would be Respublicanus typicus, or perhaps exemplaris.