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by courgette 3y ago
Oui, but I also forgot that “phrase” exists in English. I grew to like English this way: massive corpus made of anglo-saxon plus French.
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by courgette 3y ago
In France I would blame post ww2 soft power. The old cliché about French gents not speaking English is irrelevant for anybody under 40yo. It’s interesting to see French word in English from the William the conqueror period, too. ( like “phr
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by courgette 3y ago
Ha. Silly me. It’s “tournure de phrase” in french. It actually goes to show that my command of English is limited. I know both words but “phrase” did not occurs to me even so it’s the same damn word :)
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by courgette 3y ago
I speak French, English and Spanish. In that order. Some concept exist in one and not the other. Addressing someone in a formal way. Addressing a group a once ( “y’all” ) But I know bits and pieces of German, Latin and Polish… those have lo
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by courgette 3y ago
French being my first language, I can says the same things with fancier words in english. But sometime I will use English turn of sentences in French and it sounds weird ( just did it a l’envers here, pretty sure “turn of sentence” does not
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by courgette 3y ago
Got a single response. Then “try again later”
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by courgette 3y ago
I discovered that I can be instantly be close and talks about relatively deep subjects with most other foreign workers. ( I am too and it’s obvious ) Being severed from your own culture create a link. And with people sharing a language, it’
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by courgette 4y ago
Can you reference the pride and prejudice one ?
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by courgette 4y ago
Yes, as we should be. This is infuriating, other options available ( reduce pensions, remove tax breaks… ) have barely been discussed. Adding 24 months is the only presented option. I’ve discuss with people ready to strike for a while, sin
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by courgette 4y ago
I’ve notice an uptick in people getting into programming because it’s “a good job”. As opposed to a few decades ago when my experience was more “I like computer and want to know how they work. Being payed for it is nice” Not a judgement val
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by courgette 4y ago
integriwhat? I'm sorry but from an outside perspective of a foreigner living in the US... Integrity has never been something that comes to mind when I think of this country. Business, money and profits first. Whatever goes. And it&#x2
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by courgette 4y ago
Some countries now require the mention that the picture modified by a digital tool. Nice intentions, but it’s like the EU cookie warning… you quickly ignore it.
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by courgette 4y ago
I’m surprised to see that sentiment echoed several times on HN. I’m all about it.
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by courgette 4y ago
Gotcha, yes. Or a least regulate the said monopoly so they provide clear and open guidelines in regard to their policies.
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by courgette 4y ago
In this particular case, it seems easier said than done? OP did put eggs in different basquet ( social medias ) but Google will be Google right? What would be the alternative.
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by courgette 4y ago
my experience is that it stopped working a few years ago. Eg: NYT or FT. The content is nowhere to be fund on the raw html itself. No idea how it works but it looks like actual content is loaded separately once the gates are open?
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by courgette 4y ago
Thanks to pointing out the relevance
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by courgette 4y ago
Yah Bethesda game is fitting. For me it’s the text formatting. Why can’t I express a pretty table unless pasting it from xls? Why code blocks are useless and unreadable. And how HOW do I exit a quoteblock if the quote reach the last line. (
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by courgette 4y ago
I lives outside of the country since a while and they have been hounding me down to onboard. Hm
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by courgette 4y ago
I mean the real price. In term of carbon emission and damage to our surroundings. Not some dollars or yen value.
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by courgette 4y ago
Exactly, the prices are just numbers. We could decide that electronic waste is too expensive to be carried this way.
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by courgette 4y ago
that's insanely shitty. I saw the same thing in France with the Postal service. I thought "oh good, good old post-office is providing identity, good for them". But yeah, pretty sure it wont be open as well.
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by courgette 4y ago
I have the same exact phone and it's my "daily driver". Work provide me with a newer Iphone, so I know what I miss. ( Camera is insanely better on a newer iphone, once or twice a year I will go get my work phone if it's
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by courgette 4y ago
Oh. like a credit score dictating how much you will have to work to pay for the interest part of that house loan you need? Or just if you get that lease or not? That would be random people telling you what you're allowed to do. And it&
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by courgette 4y ago
A stark difference I notice between my French friends kids and my American friends kids : The former are let to fail and learn by themselves, the latter are expected to be ready before doing so.
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by courgette 4y ago
Unless those random people are banks, and you own them money for your education or your health.
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by courgette 4y ago
OP, this person mentioning towers is saying something really important here. Those structure are not here without reasons. It works, so, so much better with actual towers.
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by courgette 4y ago
No, that’s MDMA. Alcohol would be pure raw joy from tomorrow.
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by courgette 4y ago
The edging part for instance ? You need piles of assets in various financial operations.
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by courgette 4y ago
Also, what a fun draft that would be. What Western Europe country could realistically support and train a large uptick in reluctant new recruits? You need a backbone of experienced military professional and infrastructure to do that ( eg :

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