4 ms·
(native french) It is also a letter originally written in french in 1940: http://denise.vella.chemla.free.fr/transc-AWSW.pdf http://denise.vella.chemla.free.fr/
by larve 2y ago
(native french) It is also a letter originally written in french in 1940: http://denise.vella.chemla.free.fr/transc-AWSW.pdf http://denise.vella.chemla.free.fr/transc-AWSW.pdf . It uses "tu" which is the affectionate/intimate version of you, the language used is as is quite common in educated households (and the weil's certainly was) is "language soutenu", which is quite formal sound and elaborate (french people love their language), and while I can see how it could strike one as cold, especially in english-speaking countries, it doesn't seem condescending to me in the least, on the contrary.
- 082349872349872 2y ago> french people love their language as well as their anglicisms, mdr: > ... il avait aussi un theorema egregium, et je ne sais plus which is which.
- defrost 2y agoLost in Translation: it is gliding for me https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rdc71 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rdc71
- 082349872349872 2y agounfortunately subtitles are never going to do LNA HO justice: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xefrls https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xefrls (wait, did M Polnareff invent the lyric video here?)
- defrost 2y agoI expected a No True Belgian response and was instead pleasantly surprised. I'd have guessed he invented Boggle, the intertubes have that at 1972, 18 years earlier. I have no words for the French here in '67: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LZbw6YCcm4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LZbw6YCcm4
- 082349872349872 2y ago1967? 22 years before the release of unrelated belgian Techno anthem "Pump Up the Jam"...
- defrost 2y agoYes, '67, six years before Bowie covered Brel on the stench of fish and whores in Zeebrugge. (A syllable was added and Amsterdam was used as "it sounded better to the ear")
- 082349872349872 2y agoThe sailors are a bit more appreciative than the scientists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1eLe1ihT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1eLe1ihT0 (Les Horribles Cernettes lineup appears to have been far more anglophone than francophone over the years, but all of them —as it was a founding member in 1954– have at least tenuous ties to belgium)
- defrost 2y agoThat I did not know! (Although I've been a fan of the Cernettes since d/loading that first image on the web in a mosaic browser way back when).
- 082349872349872 2y agoKids now will never know the salad days of "discovery" being reading the "What's New" page at NCSA. https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/500004873-03-01.jpg?w=600 https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/50000487...