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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby lusan » Sat Mar 13, 2021 8:41 pm

badger wrote:can anyone in the UK help me with which streaming services have interesting, long-running series with French audio (& maybe subtitles)? not necessarily current series - I'm thinking stuff like ER & the X-files - that I can put on for an hour a night for many months. it seems like the X-files is no longer on Netflix & French-language boxed sets are impossible to get hold of, even from Amazon France.

many thanks!


Not in UK, but here in USA I use a VPN service... great for France, Italy, etc.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Carmody » Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:26 pm

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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Caromarlyse » Fri Mar 19, 2021 5:35 pm

This free online dictionary was launched a few days ago. It seems pretty good!

https://www.dictionnairedesfrancophones.org/
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby DaveAgain » Sat May 01, 2021 10:01 am

Just come across a new-to-me expression: être maquillée comme une voiture volée > wearing a lot of make-up.

https://youtu.be/rnYwis-0P0A?t=25
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby DaveAgain » Mon May 10, 2021 9:10 pm

New french magazine: Epsiloon.fr.

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que toute l'équipe de journalistes qui a récemment quitté Science & Vie, et dont je fais partie, rend public aujourd'hui même la création d'un nouveau magazine scientifique. Il s'appelle Epsiloon (prononcer epsilon).


https://twitter.com/PYBocquet/status/13 ... 7548297216

https://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/epsiloon ... e-20210510

https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/les-anci ... 00282.html
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Language patzer » Sat May 15, 2021 2:24 pm

DaveAgain wrote:Just come across a new-to-me expression: être maquillée comme une voiture volée > wearing a lot of make-up.

https://youtu.be/rnYwis-0P0A?t=25



I found this on the course I'm studying from:

Elle porte la toilette avec chic...

Isn't this the frenchest french phrase ever?
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Carmody » Thu Jun 03, 2021 6:37 pm

I am always the last on the block to hear what is happening so you folks probably already know this but the following is news to me:
Non Binary Neutral French Pronouns

In English, when you don’t want to misgender someone or if someone doesn’t identify as male or female (non-binary or other), you use pronouns like ‘they’ and ‘them’.

Example: Look at Chris! They look happy today! I’m going to ask them if they want to join us later.

In French, there is no neutral pronoun, but inclusive people use a new French pronoun like "iel", "ielle" (pronounce it like [yell] in English) or even "ille" (any of these 3 are fine).
We sometimes also use "on".

Examples :

Regardez Chris! Iel a l’air heureux/se aujourd’hui! Je vais ellui demander s’iel veut venir avec nous plus tard.
Iels sont ensemble depuis 2 ans. (They’ve been together for 2 years.)

"Ellui" is used instead of the object pronouns "lui" and "elle".

Things are also changing about the adjective agreements. For example, you could add a ".e" or "/e" to be inclusive.

Chacun.e fait comme iel veut !
To each their own!

The French language being so stuck on feminine / masculine (everything has gender, even things…) using "iel" etc… is not very common yet.

And it’s a bit complicated. Even among the LGBTQ+ community, people don’t agree. Some people really push for the changes, some feel being that inclusive hurts the language.

Unfortunately, all kind of inclusive writing is so far being rejected by l’Académie française. Hopefully it will change one day!


The source for this is Camille at French Today

https://tinyurl.com/6633cjyx
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Le Baron » Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:00 pm

I can understand it if people don't want to be identified in a particular way, though I'm not too keen on the ways people go about this linguistically. The French version looks uncertain and feels like it could be mistaken as 'iel' when someone else thinks it should be 'ielle' or that the 'il' is somehow taking precedence over the 'elle' in the portmanteau and thus still maintaining patriarchal dominance....and the rest.

You can see in that first example: Iel a l’air heureux/se aujourd’hui! The adjective agreement is actually the real obstacle. What do you choose heureux or heureuse? Choosing one over the other is the decider, no matter the pronoun. It may be visible in the written language for some adjectives, though how is a composition of the two even pronounced in spoken language? Adding on the 'e' seems to be just making a feminine adjective.

Pronouns aside, as we know the 'gendered' nature of French and similar languages doesn't even refer specifically to male/female nouns as there are loads of exceptions. However unless gendered adjectives are junked, which pretty much makes French not French, the pronoun is a messy half-way house solution.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Nogon » Fri Jun 04, 2021 10:07 am

Thanks Carmody! I actually wondered for quite a while about inclusive pronouns in French.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Sizen » Sat Jun 05, 2021 3:00 am

And it’s a bit complicated. Even among the LGBTQ+ community, people don’t agree. Some people really push for the changes, some feel being that inclusive hurts the language.

This is unfortunately a real sticking point. I have a French friend who goes by he/them pronouns in English (i.e. they're okay with either masculine or non-binary pronouns), but sticks to masculine pronouns in French because they're completely dissatisfied with what's on offer. To them, iel and ielle sound artificial and inelegant whereas ille has the problem of sounding the same as il in the spoken language. As for on, it feels too impersonal. This isn't how everyone feels, but it is at least how one non-binary French person I know feels.
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