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Sunday, May 5 2013

How Speaking Too Many Languages Is Limiting

© Jeremy Sutton Hibbert - Restaurant sign in Figueres, Catalonia., mai 2013

I know, by saying this - that speaking too many languages is limiting- I probably go against years and hours and sweat tears of very dubious as well as very serious research that say the contrary. As a matter of fact, if you go about googling the advantages of speaking many languages, the number of  […]

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Tuesday, July 13 2010

Why the Accent Is so Important

A tâche without an accent is just a stain.

Où la pub p)our une application iPhone sur le site spotify fait du multitâche une histoire un peu sale, faute d'accent.

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Saturday, August 29 2009

Faute de grammaire, on mange de la dessert

Crème Composé

It is probably a marketing trick to be using French sounding names in countries where French is not spoken. Especially for food. The "Cuisine flair, I suppose". But what really really bothers me, is when marketing does not check its grammar and ends up using the wrong gender for a word, or making a pathetic spelling and grammar mistake. Two examples in Germany, where the gender of "dessert" has been changed, or where a mousse-like dessert is called Crème Composé when it should be Crème ComposéE.

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Friday, July 3 2009

Vorauseilender Gehorsam

While reading one of the blogs I follow from afar on the "intercultural" scene, I stumbled upon the concet of "vorauseilender Gehorsam" (obedience before the order), an interesting concept which the commenter on the blog thought could be an explanation for the rise in English words within other languages. The idea being that people obey soe "unknown boss" that expects them to strew their conversations with English words to be fashionable, because it is the thing to do.

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Tuesday, May 26 2009

I Am More French Here Than in France

Étonnamment, je me sens plus française à l'étranger que lorsque je suis en France. Un sentiment difficile à décrire, parce qu'il est fait de nombreuses choses quelque peu triviales, autant que de choses fondamentales, mais que je ne sais pas décrypter de façon objective.

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