I'm feeling all excited :) Being the history buff that I am, I made a timeline for the Robin Hood TV series - it takes date references from the episodes and uses the information to infer the length of time each season represents. You can find it here if you're interested.

The people who run a French forum dedicated to the Robin Hood TV series ( ( Read more... )

I was going to post about how Christmas is amazing, and our dinner was delicious, and everything was lovely, and Curse of the Wererabbit was very funny, and the whole day was a delight... but I think I'll play with my Learn French CD instead ( Read more... )

Dammit, why is it that when I write an email to someone foreign, someone whom I know to understand English but not all of its idioms, I end up writing as if *I* were the foreigner without the good grasp of the English ( Read more... )

OK, I only have one, sorry! But feel free to add your bad translation stories here!

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Seen on this website for the Centre d'Études Chypriotes (important bit bolded):

La direction de cette revue est assurée par Antoine Hermary depuis le décès d'O. Masson : il est désormais aidé dans cette tâche par Sabine Fourrier et Marguerite Yon, qui s' ( Read more... )

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different.

- Goethe

I have a question:

Let's say you're writing an email to a really important French academic in your field. His surname is, let's say, Noir[1]. How do you address him? "Dear M. Noir" doesn't seem right, so...

Help muchly appreciated.

[1] Names changed to protect the innocent!

I may have mentioned this before, but part of my work now involves transcribing Hebrew because some annoying academic dudes in the 60s decided it was cool to transcribe Phoenician inscriptions into Hebrew ( Read more... )

Linkage:

SW for charity

Right/Said Fred/Harry Potter

Interactive snowglobe

My kind of thief

Simpsons movie

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Meme from the_lady_lilyGo to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List two neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year ( Read more... )

*blank look* I feel so veyr energy-less today. Who's been stealing it? I *did* translate some French article today, but that was in the middle of feeling sapped. Hum.

Well, anyway, I'd just like to praise a particular website: ITV's Emmerdale pagesOK, now I know you all think I'm a soap junkie (I am, but only for Emmerdale!). But the thing is, do ( Read more... )

There are a few things I need advice/help/thoughts on. I'll cut it so people don't get fed up with me ;)

( Not wibbly stuff, just techy and financial and linguistic stuff )