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 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5215 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 49 of 232 23 January 2014 at 9:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Nominations for the team name have closed; If you haven't yet voted for a name, you'll have till this Saturday
25th, 11:59 p.m. to do so. The list of names is in my (now edited) post 3. Please vote! Edited by songlines on 23 January 2014 at 9:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7211 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 50 of 232 23 January 2014 at 9:28am | IP Logged | ||
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| evilado Diglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4012 days ago 64 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 51 of 232 23 January 2014 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I vote for "Deuxième"
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4915 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 52 of 232 24 January 2014 at 12:31am | IP Logged | ||
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I would vote for "Mon tailleur est riche" just because of the cultural connotations, but it is too long. Maybe it could be our motto! ;)
My vote is for "Deuxième" for its simplicity and the ability to shorten it to 2ème. I do like "Formidable", but not as much. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5387 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 53 of 232 24 January 2014 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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About your name -- French generally makes a distinction between the adjectives "deuxième" (meaning number 2 of however many) and "second" (meaning last of 2).
In other words, if there are only two teams and you want a different word from "deuxième", you can use something like "Seconde équipe" ;) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5015 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 54 of 232 25 January 2014 at 12:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Just a small update to my last post: if I could, I'd like to be one of your observers/admirers or whatever is the position called in your team. I am not going to change and it wouldn't be right to be in both.
But I'm going to lurk on many of your logs as you appear to be a great team! I wish you to keep that level through whole 2014. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5215 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 55 of 232 25 January 2014 at 5:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Good news, folks; We now have a second godparent!
Arekkusu has kindly agreed to volunteer for the job, and thus will be Stelle's co-godparent. He too teaches; works as a translator, and has authored a course book on Quebec French. I'll let him add any further details he might wish to himself, and would like to offer a warm welcome and thanks! Brief note: I know Sizen (himself a Canadian) cracked a joke about Team Canada, and I myself suggested a European (or other region of the Francophonie) native speaker as a co-godparent. But I don't think it would be any problem having two Canadians as co-godparents, and should also nicely complement all the European French which language learners are /have been already exposed to. I haven't had time to post updates in my own log yet, but have been following all of yours; with such enthusiasm, and two godparents at hand for advice, it should be an exciting and wonderful French-language year! Edited by songlines on 25 January 2014 at 5:59am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5215 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 56 of 232 25 January 2014 at 5:57am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks, Arekkusu! - I'd never been clear on the distinction between the two. It's good to know, but we'll have to stick with "Deuxième" in any case, as noms for team names have now closed. I feel"deuxième" is also nicely open-ended. If chosen as the team name (which, from the count so far - barring last minute changes of votes - it may well be), members could name their own logs to indicate that French is their second language (of possibly many other languages, for aspiring polyglots); or that they're making a second round at learning it (well, let's not hope it's the second of many more), etc... It's not just that we're the second French TAC team to be formed. And - who knows? - perhaps there may yet be a third French TAC team ... (Hey, it's only January... <smile>) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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