Nursery for New Members

Don't you mean "sorry, I'm French"

That's not very nice - or funny...

HA
Those brits...
whatever will we do

Hello, i'm new to this forum. Sorry for my english, i'm french, i try to understand, but it's so difficult, i learn english, by this forum!
I'm 24years old, and i love bike.

Bonjour basien, et bienvenu. Oui, ce n’est vraiment pas une très bonne idée d’apprendre l’anglais ici—on parle l’anglais assez quotidien mais quant à l’orthographe, oh là là …heureusement pour toi, il y’a Platini qui corrige toutes les fautes même si quelquefois il faut dire qu'il prend assez longtemps de lire tout ...

Bon dit!

What the hell are you doing up and on the forum at this hour Platini?

What the hell are you doing up and on the forum at this hour Platini?

Having a cup of tea before I go to work. Early start = early finish. Mme Platini walks the dog mornings, I do afternoons.
What's your reason?

I'm fighting sleep in Beijing, where it's 1445 local time.

I too am fighting sleep in Beijing - largely because my work is mind-fuckingly tedious.

I'm too tired to work - got about 2 hours kip on the plane and then straight to the office. I am SO looking forward to bed tonight.

Whereabouts in Beijing are you Sammy?

..........oh well

You really are a prize twat.

Goes off to find the ignore function

I'm too tired to work - got about 2 hours kip on the plane and then straight to the office. I am SO looking forward to bed tonight.

Whereabouts in Beijing are you Sammy?

Hold out for as long as you can- I really messed up managing the jet-lag and have been wide awake at 4a.m. for the last two days as a result!

I'm staying in the Dongsi area and working nearby.

Bonjour basien, et bienvenu. Oui, ce n’est vraiment pas une très bonne idée d’apprendre l’anglais ici—on parle l’anglais assez quotidien mais quant à l’orthographe, oh là là …heureusement pour toi, il y’a Platini qui corrige toutes les fautes même si quelquefois il faut dire qu'il prend assez longtemps de lire tout ...

C'est peut étre pas une bonne idée, mais une éxcéllente motivation, car ce théme m'intérrese particuliérement. En tout cas, ce forum est trés riche.

@ the early rising chest beaters - you're all pussies, i was already in the pool at 5.30 to swim 4km ;)

Swimming is for gayers.

It's a bit fishy...

C'est peut étre pas une bonne idée, mais une éxcéllente motivation, car ce théme m'intérrese particuliérement. En tout cas, ce forum est trés riche.

Ça, ce n’est pas vrai. La plupart des membres du forum sont très pauvres parce qu’ils dépensent tout leur argent dans les magasins de vélo. ;)

peut-être / excellente / thème / particulièrement / très / intéresse ;)

Est-ce que tu n'a pas les clés accent grave ou accent circonflexe sur ton clavier?

Oliver, you cunning linguist ;o)

Basien, I think I know a cousin of yours, the Basin d'Arcachon. You will learn plenty of English here but not necessarily of the correct sort. Ignore Hippy as his English is colonial. Platini, however, speaks English like a queen. Bienvenu.

"Ignore Hippy as his English is colonial" meaning "comes from the colon". 'tis true!

"Ignore Hippy as his English is colonial" meaning "comes from the colon". 'tis true!

In colonial English, perhaps.

Ça, ce n’est pas vrai. La plupart des membres du forum sont très pauvres parce qu’ils dépensent tout leur argent dans les magasins de vélo. ;)

peut-être / excellente / thème / particulièrement / très / intéresse ;)

Est-ce que tu n'a pas les clés accent grave ou accent circonflexe sur ton clavier?

I'm impressed Oliver, but to be honest I don't know how to find the accent keys on this, be it grave, acute or circumflex.

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I'm impressed Oliver, but to be honest I don't know how to find the accent keys on this, be it grave, acute or circumflex.

Cheers, Platini, I was addressing that to basien, who should by rights have a proper French keyboard. Something like this:

The was me going into Platini mode, sorry about any confusion.

When I need to write French (or German) on an English keyboard, e.g. for e-mail or on a forum (text editors in e-mail clients or browsers don't tend to be that great), I compose it in another editor that supports easy shortcuts to unusual characters. It has to be admitted that M!¢£@$*~+ W€®Þ has an excellent system of shortcuts, which for some reason (perhaps it is patented?) still hasn't found its way into OOo 3.0.

The M!¢£@$*~+ system is dead easy--you press Ctrl plus a character that looks a lot like the diacritic symbol that you want (e.g. a colon for double dots as in ä or a forward apostrophe for an accent aigu as in é) and then press the letter you want, e.g. Ctrl+comma and then 'c' for a c cédille = ç or Ç. Really clever.

We expect high standards of orthography of our French correspondents. Natch.

yay.

...must post...

I wouldn't do what you're thinking of doing.

5 valuable posts and 2 days... if you post like that, you'll have us all breathing down your neck.