Tag Archives: langue

Bloguer en français ou en anglais?

Posted on 21.12.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[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 | Leave a comment

Je tweete, tu tweetes… merci de laisser les twits au vestiaire

Posted on 29.11.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[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 | 17 Comments

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

Google: “Don’t Mix Languages on the Same Page”

Posted on 09.08.2008 by Stephanie Booth

[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 | 4 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

Chassons les fautes

Posted on 04.11.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Typos and other stuff. Encouraging readers to hunt them down in the photos I took.[fr]Comme promis hier soir aux participants du dernier Bloggy Friday, une petite chasse aux fautes. Trois images pour vous, au moins trois fautes. Cliquez sur les … Continue reading →

Posted in Bloggy Friday, Language Geekiness | Tagged 20minutes, chasseauxfautes, correcteurs, correction, edipresse, édition, faute, fautedefrançais, français, Fun for me, Languages / Linguistics, langue, lematinbleu, matinbleu, Media, orthographe, Press, presse, switzerland, tamedia | 10 Comments

Sur l’arrière-train!

Posted on 06.09.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Just got a commercial letter from IKEA using the informal “tu” instead of “vous”, and am frankly quite shocked. I use “tu” very easily and tend to prefer it to “vous”, but we’re so use to associating “vous” to official … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Geekiness, My corner of the world | Tagged Anecdotes, commerciale, conventions, correspondance, français, ikea, ikeafamily, Languages / Linguistics, langue, lettre, politesse, suisse romande, tu, tutoiement, Venting, vous, vousoiement, vouvoiement | 8 Comments

Chasse aux fautes

Posted on 09.08.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Hunting for spelling horrors in my daily life. Not very interesting if you don’t speak French.[fr]Allez, j’inaugure une nouvelle série de billets un peu ludiques: la chasse aux fautes d’orthographe dans les affiches, vitrines, menus, bref, toutes les publications qui … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Geekiness, My corner of the world | Tagged chasseauxfautes, fautedefrançais, français, Fun for me, Languages / Linguistics, langue, lausanne, orthographe, publication, vitrine | 8 Comments