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camwynWent to the Knitting Meetup last night at Borders. After the knitting was over and the reporter from the Newark Star-Ledger left I wandered through the store in search of a book.
The Voice of What Most People Would Probably Consider Sanity didn't even bother trying to dissuade me this time. This is possibly because learning French would be considered respectably normal by just about anybody, regardless of whether it fed into a raging case of geek-fu or not. Maybe not much liked, if only because of widespread cultural associations with the French, but at least respectably normal.
Eventually I do intend to take actual lessons, but right now that's a bit expensive. I may try picking up a CD course in French when I visit Canada in January. Should be cheaper. And there's probably a better chance of getting the right sort of French, too, all things considered.
ph34r |\/|3.
On another note, since so many other people have done it, this is my Amazon.com wish list. I have a habit of throwing things onto the list and forgetting about them, for I am Lazy; that's why the list is a zillion miles long. It's probably a fairly good indicator of my personality or psychology or something, but I was up way too late last night and cannot be bothered to say exactly what it indicates.
EDIT: Apparently that is not my wishlist. How the !*&( do I link to my actual wishlist instead of the Amazon page that says 'here is how you create a wish list'?
The Voice of What Most People Would Probably Consider Sanity didn't even bother trying to dissuade me this time. This is possibly because learning French would be considered respectably normal by just about anybody, regardless of whether it fed into a raging case of geek-fu or not. Maybe not much liked, if only because of widespread cultural associations with the French, but at least respectably normal.
Eventually I do intend to take actual lessons, but right now that's a bit expensive. I may try picking up a CD course in French when I visit Canada in January. Should be cheaper. And there's probably a better chance of getting the right sort of French, too, all things considered.
ph34r |\/|3.
On another note, since so many other people have done it, this is my Amazon.com wish list. I have a habit of throwing things onto the list and forgetting about them, for I am Lazy; that's why the list is a zillion miles long. It's probably a fairly good indicator of my personality or psychology or something, but I was up way too late last night and cannot be bothered to say exactly what it indicates.
EDIT: Apparently that is not my wishlist. How the !*&( do I link to my actual wishlist instead of the Amazon page that says 'here is how you create a wish list'?
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by right sort of french ...
Date: 2003-12-19 09:51 am (UTC)If so, you might find this interesting:
http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Quebecois.html
They also have a general french one, and other interesting ones (basically it's a catalogue of ... slang by area). If you search for 'quebecois french' you're likely to find other resources too (if you haven't already *L*) - I had a bunch bookmarked when I lived near the Quebec border but lost it a few moves ago.
Forgot to say ...
Date: 2003-12-19 09:58 am (UTC)Wikipedia has a more general one at http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebecois_French#Lexicon
Re: by right sort of french ...
Date: 2003-12-19 11:14 am (UTC)Yeah. My cooking professor (I took two semesters of foods prep and hospitality management) was an American whose family lived in France quite a long time when he was young; he also studied at le Cordon Bleu at one point. He indicated that Quebecois French was significantly different from what you got in France- made a comment at one point about it being seventeenth-century French in Quebec. I didn't know how far to believe him, but I figured there had to be some differences. I mean, if you learn your Italian in NYC's Little Italy, they will stare at you for a very long time when you try to use it in Firenze, right? So.
Will check the links when I am not at work. Thanks!