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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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Wednesday, April 23 2008

Choosing a Name: The First Name

I never got around to telling the story of our daughter's name. It is, indeed, one heck of a story, which starts even before she was born. You have to remember that she has a German father and a French mother. This led, before her birth, to endless dicussions about what names are suitable in both  […]

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Friday, November 16 2007

About "Ceci n'est pas une endive"

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

This blog has been turning in my head for quite a long time, actually ever since I gave a presentation at Wikimania last year in Taipei, about cultural differences. The name is a funky one, but has a real history. First, why an endive? Well, even though I did not really participate in it, the  […]

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