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gerardM Mer 18 Nov - 12:03

Don't speak French but want to sing La Marseillaise tonight to show your support for France? Try this...
Voici une guide phonétique pour les anglais qui veulent chanter la Marseillaise ce soir mais qui ne parlent pas le français...

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MurielB Mer 18 Nov - 14:03

Gérard I must learn "la Marseille" that way. The words are far less frightening ! Anyway thanks for the British support !

gerardM Jeu 19 Nov - 23:38

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gerardM Sam 21 Nov - 13:58

gerardM Sam 21 Nov - 14:04

The reason why I publish this is the words, what this Australian journalist thinks about the French and the recent events.

Sunrise

Repost Sam Armytage - "The French would be appalled that I put a good drop of rouge in a plastic cup (quelle horreur!) but I needed a drink at the end of a long, sad, profoundly life-changing week. This time, I will leave a little bit of my heart here in this beautiful, eclectic, sometimes-nonsensical, chaotic, gritty city of light & love. These unabashed poets, musicians & artists (a world away from Down Under!) Emotional & proud & stubborn & forthright. Arrogant, yet strangely welcoming. Chic, even when they're terrified. Where even takeaway seems to have 3 chef's hats. This traumatic time has changed this city forever. From now, a trip to Paris will be met with warnings to 'take care'. We say we won't let the terrorists win, but the truth is the people here are very frightened. As they should be. I pray that we never have to go through this, but if we do I know we will be as brave as the French. This is a new & scary world, where people with ideologies so different to ours, loathe us for simply being free. And while life doesn't seem to mean much to them, I'm glad I'm on the side where life means everything. Viva la France.

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Guilaine Sam 21 Nov - 14:51

Hi gérard,
This text posted on "the New York Times" by a certain "Blakpoodles" from Santa Barbara is also excellent :

France embodies everything religious zealots everywhere hate: enjoyment of life here on earth in a myriad little ways : a fragrant cup of coffee and buttery croissant in the morning, beautiful women in short dresses smiling freely on the street, the smell of warm bread, a bottle of wine shared with friends, a dab of perfume, children playing in the Luxembourg Gardens, the right not to believe in any god, not to worry about calories, to flirt and smoke and enjoy sex outside of marriage, to take vacations, to read any book you want, to go to school for free, to play, to laugh, to argue, to make fun of prelates and politicians alike, to leave worrying about the afterlife to he dead.
No country does life on earth better than the French.
Paris, we love you, We cry for you. You are mourning tonight, and we with you.
We know you will laugh again, and sing again, and make love, and heal, because loving life is your essence. The forces of darkness will ebb. They will lose. They always do.

gerardM Sam 21 Nov - 15:05

I do like the text Guilaine.

It comes from a comment on an article of the NYT.

Here mentioned by the French Embassy in Zimbabwe -> http://www.ambafrance-zw.org/Attentats-du-13-novembre-a-Paris-Ceremonie-a-l-ambassade-de-France-a-Harare

Laurent Delahousse
Ambassadeur de France au Zimbabwe

Is it the journalist for France 2? scratch

Guilaine Sam 21 Nov - 15:20

Oh I didn't know it had been mentioned by the French Ambassador in Zimbabwe as well.
Thanks for letting me know. It praises France and the French and we do need it.

Shouldn't these texts be posted on some other place, the title doesn't suit the subject, don't you think ?

gerardM Sam 21 Nov - 15:36

Guilaine a écrit:... Shouldn't these texts be posted on some other place, the title doesn't suit the subject, don't you think ?

I'll ask Muriel at the end of the day.

gerardM Lun 23 Nov - 22:33

MurielB Lun 23 Nov - 23:15

A good balance between the two is important isn't it ?

gerardM Lun 23 Nov - 23:18

Right Muriel.

gerardM Mar 24 Nov - 14:38

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gerardM Jeu 26 Nov - 23:16

Greenpeace International

Always a good thing to remember!

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MurielB Dim 29 Nov - 11:05

Hi !
I have searched on the internet the word scavenge i didn't know

a. To collect (useful items) by searching through refuse: scavenged a chair from the neighbor's trash.
b. To search through (a place or container) for useful items.
2. To feed on (dead or decaying matter). Used especially of animals.
3.
a. To expel (exhaust gases) from a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine.
b. To expel exhaust gases from (such a cylinder).
4.
a. To clean (molten metal) by chemically removing impurities.
b. To remove or inactivate (harmful chemicals or impurities) in a mixture: antioxidants that scavenge free radicals from the body.
v.intr.
1. To search through refuse for useful items.
2. To feed on dead or decaying matter.

gerardM Dim 29 Nov - 15:03

Hi Muriel,
Thanks for "scavenge".
I'd add a few words of its family:
- scavenger - this word is used for animals who live on dead bodies of other animals, such as vultures, hyenas...
- scavenger hunt
--- a film (1979) with Arnold Schwarzenegger -appearance- ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavenger_Hunt )
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A scavenger hunt is a party game in which the organizers prepare a list defining specific items, which the participants – individuals or teams – seek to gather all items on the list – usually without purchasing them – or perform tasks or take photographs of the items, as specified. The goal is usually to be the first to complete the list, although in a variation on the game players can also be challenged to complete the tasks on the list in the most creative manner

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavenger_hunt )

"swap and barter" -
- I used swap (sometimes also flip, or flip-flop) when I needed to mount a new magnetic tape to replace a filled up one (computing)
- barter (that I didn't know) is to exchange an object against another one owned by someone else, without any money.