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What I'm involved in these days...
Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteur
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Category Archives: Language Geekiness
Polyglots and other Multilinguals, Rejoice
[fr]A lire de toute urgence pour ceux d’entre nous qui parlent plus d’une langue (même imparfaitement) — et pour les autres aussi: Life as a Bilingual, blog du Prof. François Grosjean de Neuchâtel.[en]My friend Corinne shared a link on Facebook … Continue reading
Posted in Language Geekiness
Tagged bilingual, françois grosjean, multilingual, psycholinguistics, Research, switzerland
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Traduction suisse romande de WordPress.com
[en]Swiss-French translation of WordPress.com: I got it! (Thanks, Zé) You may or may not know that French (like any other language) varies between linguistic regions. There is now a Swiss-French translation of WordPress.com, which I’m proud to manage.[fr]Il y a … Continue reading
Posted in Language Geekiness, Wordpress
Tagged fr-ch, français, suisse, suisse romande, traduction, Wordpress, wordpress.com
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Bloguer en français ou en anglais?
[en]I write a weekly column for Les Quotidiennes, which I republish here on CTTS for safekeeping.[fr]Chroniques du monde connecté: cet article a été initialement publié dans Les Quotidiennes (voir l’original). Les blogueurs qui se lancent se demandent souvent dans quelle … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Chroniques du monde connecté, Language Geekiness
Tagged anglais, anglosphère, blogosphère, choix, français, francosphère, langue, public
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WPML to Make Your WordPress Site Multilingual
[fr]A tester absolument si vous devez mettre en place un site multilingue: le plugin WPML pour WordPress.[en]I’ve been wanting to play with the WPML WordPress plugin for a while now, and I finally took the plunge today and updated my … Continue reading
Posted in Language Geekiness, Wordpress
Tagged bilingual, languages, multilingual, plugin, Wordpress, wpml
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LeWeb’09: Kevin Marks on Buzzwords
Live notes from LeWeb’09. They could be inaccurate, although I do my best. You might want to read other posts by official bloggers, in various languages! Do we really use too many buzzwords? Right now, “real-time”. Some words Kevin has … Continue reading
Posted in Language Geekiness, Live Blogging
Tagged buzzwords, language, leweb09, web, words
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Je tweete, tu tweetes… merci de laisser les twits au vestiaire
[en]About the correct way to say “to tweet” and “a tweet” in French. No twits, please. Or even twitts. It just sounds plain stupid.[fr]J’ai beau être une horrible bilingue qui parsème allègrement mon français d’anglicismes et mon anglais de gallicismes, … Continue reading
Posted in Language Geekiness, Social Media and the Web
Tagged anglais, bon usage, explication, français, langue, terminologie, traduction, tweet, tweeter, twit, twitt, twitter
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De la dégradation de la langue
[en]About my French spelling being worse than it was 15 years ago (is it the keyboard? is it something else?) and the terrifying experience of “losing my French” while I was in India 10 years ago.[fr]La mienne, en l’occurence. Plus … Continue reading
Un Parti des Pirates Suisse multilingue?
[en]Will the community gathered around the creation of a Swiss Pirate Party manage to include the various linguistic groups of the country, or will the Roestigraben win, like it did in the 2006 Swiss Blog Awards? Interesting situation which I’m … Continue reading
Google: “Don’t Mix Languages on the Same Page”
[fr]Dommage, un article sur comment démarrer son site multilingue sur un des blogs officiels de Google donne des conseils que je trouve assez malheureux (genre: “ne mélangez pas plusieurs langues sur une même page”).[en]I wanted to leave this as a … Continue reading
Posted in Language Geekiness
Tagged google, languages, Languages / Linguistics, langue, multilingual
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Digital Crumble
Deb Roy: The Birth of a Word
[fr]Une vidéo fascinante sur l’apprentissage du langage — et aussi sur le traitement et la visualisation de quantités étourdissantes de données linguistiques. A regarder.[en]Ah yes, another video. You see, some evenings, instead of sitting in front of the TV (not … Continue reading →