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| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4681 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 145 of 243 15 January 2013 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
In Spanish is `alcachofa de la ducha': artichoke of the shower! :D Greetings from a fellow CS'er! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5531 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 146 of 243 15 January 2013 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
Then there's that scene in the recent Tintin movie where Haddock breathes into the empty gas tank, and his breath is flammable enough to restart the motor. That's actually painful to watch with modern eyes. My favorite part of Objectif lune and On a marché sur la lune is that they were first published in starting in 1953, long before a moon mission was feasible. And a lot of the tiny details of mission planning are surprisingly realistic for a silly comic book. One key difference, however, is that Tintin goes to the moon on a nuclear-powered rocket. Had we actually dared to build such rockets in real life, Kennedy could have been sending manned missions to the moons of Jupiter around the time of the Apollo program. It's little tiny details like that which make me forgive Haddock's ridiculous drunkenness, Dupont and Dupond's impossible stupity, and all the other things which can annoy me in a Tintin book. One good page can pay for all, one gasp of wonder or one telling little detail. Edited by emk on 15 January 2013 at 6:20pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5208 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 147 of 243 17 January 2013 at 6:09am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, I've finished that chapter. By the way, I'm not on page 199 of The Hobbit; that figure's a total which includes pages from the other titles which follow (i.e. Goscinny's, Conan Doyle's). But I enjoyed The Hobbit in English, and anticipate enjoying it in French too. Do you have a copy of the English original to read as a parallel text? Or perhaps you may prefer a different translation? - I have sample paragraphs comparing the two French translations, a couple of pages back: post 136. But of course, if you really are tired of The Hobbit, you don't have to finish it, you know. I used to feel vaguely guilty about abandoning books mid-stream, but realized that life is too short to plod to the end of books I'm not really enjoying, just out of a sense of duty. Not a motto, more a wail of despair: "So many books, so little time..." Edited by songlines on 17 January 2013 at 6:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5208 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 148 of 243 17 January 2013 at 6:10am | IP Logged | |||||
"Artichoke of the shower"? - That's even more delightful (and appropriate, if you look at the shape)! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5208 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 149 of 243 17 January 2013 at 6:16am | IP Logged | |||||
Very nicely put. And yes, indeed. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5208 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 150 of 243 17 January 2013 at 8:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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And over in the What is Good Enough? thread,
Tastyonions posted this:
Which precisely touches on the lacune in my domestic vocabulary. For a fascinating resource to cover gaps such as these, try the Firefly Visual Dictionary (in English+ French, German, Italian, and Spanish editions respectively, or a jumbo five-language edition 1000-page, super-pricey edition). This amazing series (e.g. Spanish edition) would, with judicious study, go a long way towards covering gaps in some of the more specialized (yet common enough) areas, such as do-it-yourself home repairs, or describing to a salesperson the style of skirts or dresses you prefer. And, according to my Firefly French/English Visual Dictionary, a rolling pin is le rouleau à pâtisserie (though "pâtisserie" on its own is a feminine noun); a baseboard is la plinthe. Edited by songlines on 17 January 2013 at 8:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6084 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 151 of 243 17 January 2013 at 8:14am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, my ten-year-old is reading our English version. She's farther along than I am, especially now that the movie is out in Germany. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5394 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 152 of 243 18 January 2013 at 4:36am | IP Logged | |||||
I got the five-language one on eBay last year for about $15. It's really an incredible reference book, especially if you are learning more than one (or two) of the languages. Heck - there are English words in there that I don't know. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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