Sorry, I had to. I stayed hooked on electric sheep way too long to omit mentioning it here. It is really worth the (long) visit.
Courtesy of astoundingweb.org.
Bilingue? [en]
J’ai exprimé il y a déjà un moment mon désir d’avoir un site bilingue. Par bilingue, je n’entends pas le fait d’avoir une version du site en anglais, et une autre en français.
Pour une personne bilingue, et même probablement pour quelqu’un qui a appris un tant soit peu sérieusement une langue étrangère, il est tout à fait évident que deux langues ne se “recouvrent” pas. Il n’y a pas de traduction pure. Et c’est aussi cela que je veux rendre ici.
Certes, c’est embêtant. Les seules personnes qui profiteront pleinement de mon site sont celles qui maîtrisent suffisemment les deux langues.
Mais c’est la seule solution que je vois pour le moment – et c’est celle qui correspond le mieux à ma façon de vivre le bilinguisme.
J’accueille très volontiers vos commentaires à ce sujet – spécialement en français!
Bilingual? [en]
Quite some time ago, I said I wanted this site to be bilingual.
It is now clear that there is one way it will not be done: I will not translate each page to give a “French” and an “English” version of the site – nor will I translate word for word everything that I write. I just can’t.
So you will find stuff in English, some in French, and some in both. If you don’t know both languages, you might miss things – that’s how it is in the real world, isn’t it?
Goldbach's Conjecture [en]
Goldbach’s Conjecture says that each even number is the sum of two primes.
For example, 6=1+5, 8=3+5, 18=11+7, etc.
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
The only problem is that up till now, nobody has managed to prove or disprove it. We do not know for sure that it is correct or false – though we do have good reasons to think it is true.
Des yeux pour entendre [en]
Si j’attends d’avoir écrit une critique complète de chaque livre avant de vous le recommander, je risque bien de ne jamais le faire…
Il est temps de se jeter à l’eau!
Des yeux pour entendre par Oliver Sacks.
Critiques sur epinions.com (anglais).
Ce livre est une formidable présentation du monde des sourds. Il explore en profondeur les caractéristiques du langage des signes comme langue, et son influence sur le développement et l’épanouissement de ceux qui le parlent.
Un avertissement, toutefois: on court le risque de s’inscrire à des cours une fois le livre terminé!
Seeing Voices [en]
If I wait to write complete reviews of books before recommending them to you, I might never do it.
Let’s get going!
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks.
Reviews on epinions.com.
This book is a great introduction to the world of the deaf. It explores in depth the characteristics of Sign as a language, and its influence on the mind and development of those who use it.
A word of warning, however: you might find yourself taking up classes to learn Sign by the end of the book!
Chronicles of Narnia [en]
I’ve finished reading the Chronicles of Narnia (by C. S. Lewis). It must be at least the fifth time I’m reading them.
Another author who has kept me company lately is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I read One Hundred Years of Solitude a year or two back (it kept me breathless), and during my week-end in England I finished Love in the Time of Cholera.
New Look [en]
New look for this page!
Something to keep you waiting until it gets really better – let’s keep hoping!
Hired [en]
Orange has just hired me to convert their training manuals to HTML (from Powerpoint).
: )
No further comment needed, I suppose!
Apart from that, I have just come back from a week-end in Birmingham with Somak, Aleika, and Akirno. It was really nice to see them again.
Winter is here, and with it, my exams are approaching fast. That means that I will be spending less hours fiddling with my site and writing sometimes meaningless blog entries, and more time in my books. In some way, I’m looking forward to it.
You [en]
Yes, you! I know people are visiting this site : )
At the moment, it is you I am talking about…
I don’t have a guestbook, but I do have a really cool comment link at the bottom of each blog entry… get my drift?
; ) leave a little mark!