Comments | beboots: Fun facts about the Métis!

beboots

Fun facts about the Métis!

Mar 19, 2011 22:00

I actually spent a ridiculous amount of time today working on my History of Translation paper. I'm planning on writing about Métis translators and the numbered treaties in the 1870s.

( Quick blurb about the Métis for those not in the know... Because everyone should be in the know about the awesomeness of the Métis. )

i am such a luddite, my thoughts - let me show you them, histories, scholarly pursuits, 1800s, true north strong and free, scribblings

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kuiskata March 20 2011, 04:22:24 UTC

Michif is cool.

Huh. I never bothered to learn the number shortcuts for accents. I always found the shortcuts like "ctrl+'+e" or "ctrl+`+e" for é or è much more intuitive. (But it is good to have a number pad if you use the number shortcuts, yes.)

...And I totally just copied my research notes files onto my memopry stick. XD

beboots March 20 2011, 04:24:57 UTC

Michif is AWESOME. I've totally been exploring this super-awesome website that teaches you the basics of the language and culture: http://www.learnmichif.com/ It's where those videos came from, actually.

...I totally didn't know about those shortcuts! Why don't people tell me these things, Cassidy? ;_;

YES, BACK THEM UP. I INEVITABLY FORGET/PUT IT OFF UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE.

kuiskata March 20 2011, 05:20:54 UTC

:D

They don't teach these shortcuts in school, though I never understood why. They should! They're just something I figured out on my own, playing around on the computer (though a lot (but not all) of them are included along with the number shortcut if you click on the character in "Insert Symbol".) I always just ignored what they told us in school because I had my own way of doing it - that worked just as well.

Backed up! :D I usually forget, too. I need to set up a restore point on my laptop still, I think... (Maybe I'll do it when I have enough time... after finals?)

beboots March 20 2011, 17:46:32 UTC

You can make restore points? I've never heard of such a thing before, but they certainly sound immensely useful!

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feral_shrew March 21 2011, 01:27:00 UTC

On my old computer, I'd abuse Word's autocorrect. I'd write cliche, it would add in the accent for me like a good little program, and I'd delete the rest of the word and have an accent just where I wanted it. I had to actually learn how to insert characters for science lab reports, but I'd list them at the bottom so I only had to go searching for alpha/the degree sign/chemical compounds with too many subscripted numbers once.

beboots March 22 2011, 02:30:05 UTC

That is super clever! I'd never have thought of using auto-correct like that... :3