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( Not bad, but isn't this a kind of advertising of your website ... it could just have been in your introduction ... Anyway, there is not much to sell on your site, so I reckon the admins won't be too fussy about it. <_<

( That's outrageous ... I totally agree with the brothers' action, but had I been them, I would have sued Apple for such a thing! It should be at least written on the box ... Anyway, better buy a simple mp3 player for less than $100 or a Mini-Disc player for less than $200

( Isn't this thread irrelevant anymore ... or is it just kept for future generations archives? Maybe in 3,597,261 posts from now, some forumer will check how stupid we were in finding a way to congratulate ourselves after the 100,00th post ... They will see us as a primitive life form because we didn't give out any money

( Why? is she French? Anyway, a French swimmer has just won the semi-finals in 200m back-stroke ... hope he wins tomorrow ! I told you Phelps would not win ... Thorpe was too goob today!

( knowing that only over 200 actors are very rich and only 50 American swimmers (maybe less) are at the Olympics, I think you should try and find something else ... 200 over 250Million ... or 50 over 250Million ... that is a low percentage. Apart from that, I would choose going to the Olympics in 2012 (2008 is a bit young ...)

( No way ... Van den Hogenband (indeed whatever his names spells) and Thorpe are better than him when they will compete all three

( Yeh, probably, but it was the first time I saw "family" as associated with plural. I would use "relatives" instead ...

( Moissac, France ... The town is only known for its church gate (Westminster Abbey entrance was presumably designed upon Moissac's church gate, a.k.a the Tympanum) and its cloister ... probably the nicest Romance cloister in the world.

( It is the same problem as with : the United-States has declared war upon terrorism. Here the US is taken as a whole, as a group ... hence the has However, it was not such throughout history. Until very recently, the US was referred as they. One would have said : [the United States have declared war to Japan. But I guess that is a bit outdated. EDIT: I am reading a book at the moment, and I have just come across " [...] his family were [...]" So I guess both are possible, depending on what you mean ...

( I thought the Québécois were harsh defenders of the French language Anyway, "concierge" is originally in France "a man that takes care of someone else's everyday duties" ... and that is not a neologism ... rather an archaism.

( here is another one ... http://www.didieraccord.com/ It is really good. My wife (who is English speaking native and currently learning French) uses it quite often ... nicely done ...

( Well, usually "Nouvelle" as a literary work is "short story" in English. "Novel" and "Nouvelle" are quite mistaking. "Novel" is "Roman" ...

( Well done guys ... As for Lorian's rep, I think you should not use his translation ... a translation website is yet the worse you can get I would make some tiny corrections about akya and Yiuel's translations ... "nettoyeur de bâtiment" seems to me more appropriate than "concierge" ... however, I do not know how to use it in Canadian-French ... In Franco-French , it means "a person who is charge of a building ... like taking care of the trash, helping people out sometimes, checking who is getting in and out, etc ..." Then, "nous avons eu beacoup de plaisir" seems a bit too "lusty" in French, knowing that "plaisir" nowadays in France is often sexually orientated. I thought akya's translation here was better in French. "Nous nous sommes beaucoup amusés" is perfect. However, akya mentions "l'océan" in poland ... I am afraid to say Yiuel is right here ... better be "la mer". That's it ... sorry if it's a little late. Just got back from London, and I am exhausted

( Great screenshots .. as for Stonehenge, it seems it is much older than what is generally said ... pre-Celtinc definitely...

( So, maybe a change of name may be most welcome ... Homework forum sounds very "schoolsih" and "boring" (although it ain't ) I do not have any idea as a new name, but the package is always what is looked at in the first place

( *looks at Tim's solution* *tries to understand* *understands* *looking again* *doesn't understand at all* *gives up* *goes and post in "Word Association" * Anyway, it is easier to change the rep manually good job Timbo and thanks for the rep changes too

( I used to be on 1024x768 and I didn't have that problem ... you must be on 800x600 mate! change your settings ...

( This is my 1500th post !!! hurray

( Nice pictures ... it is funny, when I got my digital camera, I was doing the same as you, Michael ... I used to take pictures of everything ... and I deleted most of them eventually

( Well, as I have no more homework to do (except correcting all my students' papers ), I do not post much in it ... However, there are interesting topics sometimes, like related to grammar, history or science.

( Actually ZZ, I thought Insurrection was a game in its own right ... Anyway, can anybody tell us what the Insurrection guys are doing right now?

( still teaching English next year ... however, I haven't been assigned somewhere yet ... it should be in the area, but no letter has arrived yet ... should know it in the midlle of August

( Well, do you mean the Anglo-Saxons actually came from North England or do you mean they had just ridden back from North England ...? Anyway, Normands were Vikings after all Just Vikings who had settled there and given a piece of land to stop bothering the other Frankish provinces As for the Normands invading the whole country ... I disagree as well ... It is pretty clear on the Bayeux tapestry that the population was of course not in favour of the Normands, but did not do much to expell them from Brittania. Let's say they were like some French people during WW2 ... they criticized the Germans, but in fact traded with them ... hence the high number of Normand/Viking relics in the area ... a living relic of which is the Manx Loaghtan Sheep on the Isle of Man ... :znaiga: Anyway, another precision, 1066 is also remembered as the only time Anglo-Saxons were invaded by a foreign power ... Only the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons had managed to take Britain over ... Neither Hitler nor Napoleon could ... As for Klaas's division of Ages, I thought it was a bit different. Maybe it is due to our education system ... okay until the classical ages ... but ... 476 - 1492 is here called the Middle-Ages (not until 1453), 1492 being Colombus's discovery 1492 - mid 18th is known as the Renaissance period mid 18th - 1900 is the industrial revolution and post-revolution period. 1900 onwards is modern age ... Anyway, just a difference in point of view

( interesting ... the only dialect I know is Alsacian dialect since my great-grand-father was from Alsace and he often swore in Alsacian so that locals (in the South West) could not understand. I recently learned that he had served in the French army during WW2 with the English troops in Dunkerque and Flanders (in 1940) against the Germans and his brother (who was Alsacian and had remained in Alsace ... do you still follow me? ) fought for the Germans ... but had been forced to. After the war, my great grand-father's brother literally hated the Germans for making him join their Army ... he lived near Strasburg, 10 km from the French-German border, but always refused to cross the border. Or, when there were Germans who were asking for directions, or information (because the little village is quite touristic), he pretended not to understand German and only spoke French, although he was fluent German ... Funny story that of Alsace. Again, my great-grand-father was born in 1911, a time when Alsace was German ... so he had German nationality and he went to German school. Then, in 1918, he became French ... had French nationality and went to French school ... However, speaking German saved his life during WW2. After coming back from Dunkerque, he lived with his family in South West France. One night, a little Jewish girl knocked at their door and asked for shelter. My great-grand-mother let her in and hid her. The Germans arrived several minutes after. They were asking questions, threatening the family, but when they saw my great-grand-father spoke German (perfectly ... hence they may have thought he was German), they gave up ... I was told the little girl went to Israel after the War ... apparently, she wrote them letters until their death. Her sister however, was not as lucky ... she was shot on the streets by the Germans ... Now, a grave is in the middle of a Catholic graveyard. It shall stay there in rememberance of her. My great-grand-mother used to place flowers on her grave ... my mother does it ... and it seems I have carried on the tradition ...

( Lille is 8 hours from here I'd better go to Spain (2 hours) As for West-Flemish, I really didn't know it had nothing to do with Dutch ... I thought it was very similar ... Same here anyway ... Occitan (local South West dialect) here is very different from Occitan in the Spanish Garonne valley ...