Tag Archives: english

De la dégradation de la langue

Posted on 12.11.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[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 →

Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged anglais, bilingual, bilingue, clavier, english, français, french, inde, india, language, langue, orthographe, spelling, typing | 6 Comments

Multilingual Proposals (Reboot, BlogCamp)

Posted on 18.03.2007 by Stephanie Booth

The famous conference reboot will take place in Copenhagen on 31.05-01.06. I’ll be attending. I’m also going to make a proposal for a talk (as the (un)conference format encourages this). I’m being a bit shy about putting it up on … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Language Geekiness, Travels | Tagged Announcements, blogcampswitzerland, Blogger musings, blogging, conference, english, Essay-Like, Events, internet, languages, Languages / Linguistics, localisation, multilingual, online, Online Culture, proposal, reboot9, switzerland, talk, Travels, unconference, web | 21 Comments

Not All Switzerland Speaks German, Dammit!

Posted on 04.03.2007 by Stephanie Booth

Here we go, yet another misguided attempt at localisation: my MySpace page is now in German. MySpace now joins PayPal, eBay, Amazon, Google in defaulting to German for Swiss people. Switzerland is a multilingual country. The linguistic majority speaks Swiss-German … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged allemand, amazon, ebay, english, french, german, google, italian, italien, l10n, language, Languages / Linguistics, langue, linguisticminority, localisation, localization, minoritélinguistique, myspace, paypal, romanche, romansh, Software and Tools, suisse, suisse-allemand, suisseromande, swissgerman, switzerland, Venting, Website Reviews, Comments, and Linkage | 45 Comments

English Only: Barrier to Adoption

Posted on 24.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Dans ce billet à l’attention des anglophones, j’insiste sur le fait que l’inexistance d’une version en français d’un produit va entraver son adoption ici. Même si les gens parlent anglais (un peu, beaucoup) cela rajoute une difficulté supplémentaire. Si Skype, … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Geekiness, My corner of the world, Thinking, Wordpress | Tagged adoption, application, Citations, dotclear, english, Essay-Like, facebook, flickr, francophone, french, icq, internet, language, languagebarrier, Languages / Linguistics, livemessenger, msn, myspace, online, openweb, pompagenet, skyblog, skype, Social Software, Software and Tools, suisse romande, Theories, translation, usability, web2.0, webstandards, Wordpress | 14 Comments

A Brief Update

Posted on 18.09.2004 by Stephanie Booth

A very brief summary of my first four weeks of teaching. Tired, difficult, but I’m OK.

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Posted in Personal | Tagged difficult, discipline, Education, english, french, hard, Life Updates, parents, pupil, rough, skyblog, teaching, teenager, tough, weblog | 25 Comments

U-Blog, Six Apart, and Their Angry Bloggers

Posted on 21.07.2004 by Stephanie Booth

This very long post is, for the first time in English, a pretty complete account of what has been going on with U-blog and Loïc Le Meur in the French blogosphere for some time now. With the acquisition of Ublog by Six Apart, these problems are bound to take another dimension for the English-speaking blogosphere.

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Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged angloblogosphere, angry, aurora, blog, blogosphère, Blogosphere Interest, community, complain, divide, english, Essay-Like, features, francoblogosphere, french, gloaguen, history, language, Languages / Linguistics, laurent, le meur, loic, movable type, post, problem, promise, six apart, trouble, typepad, u-blog, ublog, unhappy, weblog | 79 Comments