h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've re-read the House Rules:
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J'ai re-relu les règles:
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Postings or entries containing languages other than English may be removed.
Because we have to ensure we understand a Posting or Guide Entry in case of problems, languages other than English may have to be removed. It's also polite when posting to a Conversation to stick to the same language as the other Postings in that Conversation; posting something in a different language halfway through is not very constructive.

I think we will have to form a comity of some people before proposing it to the editors, I think we could receive a No as an answer. If we propose to correct and verify for ourselves those entries, maybe they would be more interest to say yes. Anyone want to create a french comity with me?
I'll create a page with what the native french, quebecers and french speaking wants, trying to take volunteer to correct, verify entries for they not break house rules.
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Je crois que nous devrions former un comité de quelques personnes avant de proposer mon idée aux éditeurs. Je pense que nous recevrions un Non comme réponse tandis que si nous proposons nous même de corriger et vérifier chaque entrée en français, ils seraient peut-être plus enclain à dire Oui. Quelqu'un veut-il joindre un comité avec moi?
Je vais créer une page avec ce que les Français, Québecois, franco-Canadien et tous ceux qui parlent français voudraient du Guide, essayer de trouver des volontaires pour corriger, vérifier les entrées pour qu'elles soient en accords avec les règles.

However, I do not plan to take the conversations to french... That would be too much trouble for us and the editors.
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Cependant, je ne planifie pas de transformer les discussions en français, ceci serait beaucoup trop de trouble pour nous et les éditeurs...

Here: A41003173
Please native french speakers, non-native french speakers and everybody else have a look.
If I made any mistakes, I would gladly know, since we will try to submit that to the Editors.

I don't think we have a hope in if we don't translate whatever we write, but they might accept translation sof each other's pieces. We'd have to ask.

Je ne pense point qu'il soit possible sans traduction de tout ce qu'on écrit, mais ils pourraient accepter qu'on traduise les postes(??) d'un autre. Il faudrait le leur demander - ou meme prier!!!

Dig

Might be worth spelling committee right in the proposal?

Thanks! fixed.
I'll be back sunday.
I read an interesting proposition to speak with "our BBC" Radio-Canada for a partnership or a h2g2 sister site, I'll see what I can do: I'll write a nice letter to them.
4me

One thought - why just French? There must be enough speakers of other languages round about to open this up to many more languages.

Although, I don't think the italics will say yes to the proposal, as if they don't speak the language they will have no way of knowing whether the committee are doing their job right. Good luck though!

I've not really followed the whole conversation but I'd like you to know:
The Language thing has a kind of special permission to use languages other than English. If you write other languages in other threads and an Italic sees it the post usually is removed... well, not it it's a single word maybe and they may accept a sentence or so if it's translated, but: I've been yiksed often enough myself.

This is obviously more far-reaching than is immediately clear. Surely, if we play our cards right, it should be possible to do what we want here? In fact, this was what I hoped for when I signed up.
It would be fun to see the same text rewritten in whatever lingo came to mind/hand/keyboard! But we ight have to ask for more trimmings like accents, umlauts etc?

Dig <senior

Bonjour Dig - on a certainement le droît d’écrire en français ici, pourvu qu’on ajoute la traduction en anglais, et c’est comme ci que cela se passe normalement. Je tape le texte en ‘Word’ d’abord, et puis je ‘découpe’ et ‘recolle’ le tout, y compris les accents.

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Hi Dig - we can certainly write in French here, as long as we put in a translation, and that is what usually happens. I find that if I type the text in Word first, I can then cut & paste everything, including accents.

Quelle idée magnifique! Je viens de me surprendre, cependant..j'ai ouvert le 'character map' dont je ne connais pas le nom français, et voilà!! Les accents apparaissent! Pourquoi, me demandé-je (tiens! quelle horreur!)ne l'ai-je pas essayé auparavant?????

What a great idea! But I've just astonished myself..I opened Character Map, whose French name I don't know, and behold!! The accents appear! Why, I ask myself (Crikey, what appalling French!) haven't I tried it before????????

Dig

Toc, toc, il y a quelqu'un?



knock, knock, is there anyone around?

I hope so

Thanks for the , Tavaron. I'm currently going through the old threads i was subscribed to, trying to revive them ...


suspense, suspense...

Bonsoir à tous et à toutes! Ça fait beaucoup de temps que je ne passe pas par ici. Mais maintenant je suis trop fatiguée pour taper en français (avec les accents et tout) … je vais me coucher.


Evening all! I haven’t been around here for a while. But now I’m too tired to type in French (what with the accents and all that) … I’m off to bed.

D'accord, mais on pourra peut-être discuter plus tard?


ok, but maybe we could have a chat later?