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wath68
12-30-2003, 03:37 PM
Hello everybody. Is this site not in french? thanx

Rex_Mundi_Incarnit
12-30-2003, 05:20 PM
Not that i know. You seem to be able to speak english, so whats the problem? :D

Young Twig
12-30-2003, 05:56 PM
Hello everybody. Is this site not in french? thanx
Looks like not. Apparently nobody knows french around here... :(

acozz
12-30-2003, 06:13 PM
Maybe they don't like Quebec.

DeltaGuy
12-30-2003, 08:13 PM
Looks like not. Apparently nobody knows french around here... :( Mais moi!
Je parle francais!
I'm not an expert, but I'm learning...

If you'd like to see this page in French, click here (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?tt=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quinnware.com&lp=en_fr)...
As you navigate the site, the other pages will be translated also...

Young Twig
12-30-2003, 10:27 PM
Mais moi!
Je parle francais!
I'm not an expert, but I'm learning...

If you'd like to see this page in French, click here (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?tt=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quinnware.com&lp=en_fr)...
As you navigate the site, the other pages will be translated also...
:D lol... that doesn't ruin the display of the site.

that's a really cool thing though. I wonder how accurately it can translate (proper grammar?).

DeltaGuy
12-31-2003, 02:46 AM
:D lol... that doesn't ruin the display of the site.

that's a really cool thing though. I wonder how accurately it can translate (proper grammar?).
Not that good, it's only a machine translation...
Language is an Art, it cannot be accurately interpreted by a machine...
And French is a much more artistic language than English...
It's much more pleasing to hear spoken, as are many of the Romances...

Hanzo
12-31-2003, 03:09 AM
Spanish is also one hard language to write / speak properly. I've mastered spanish grammar thanks to the most rough teachers in Panama. It is a very romantic language, too bad it's grammar is as complex as well. It's becoming kinda "polluted" due all the slangs and web lingo stuff. I often hear new verbs in spanish like "emailear" (emailing) which is kinda sad, but helpful as well.

As for french, I think is pretty cool, but the good thing about french is that if you add the "french" at the end or at the beginning of something, it makes it nice.

For instance, "French Fries" ... if you say fried potato chips, it sounds kinda boring, right? But say French Fries and things all of a sudden turn romantic.
Another example, if you say your girlfriend that you'll tongue-kiss her, she may slap your face, right? But if you say: I'll give you a French-Style kiss, she'll likely think you're the coolest man on earth.

Just all the advantages of being french or speaking french...:(

DeltaGuy
12-31-2003, 08:24 PM
For instance, "French Fries" ... if you say fried potato chips, it sounds kinda boring, right? But say French Fries and things all of a sudden turn romantic.
What do "Freedom" Fries" sound like??? ;)

Another example, if you say your girlfriend that you'll tongue-kiss her, she may slap your face, right? But if you say: I'll give you a French-Style kiss, she'll likely think you're the coolest man on earth.
I'll be sure to remember that when I visit St. Anne's to study French... ;)

MrZebra
01-01-2004, 04:10 PM
I know french, it's just that I don't have time to do a translation for the site.