| Author | Message | ||
     Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 138.253.18.127 |
I want to buy a copy of the French magazine Galaxies SF (because I'm in it) but my French involves me talking loudly and waving my arms a lot. Does anybody here speak (or rather, write) French well enough so I can send a message buying the magazine and not the office pot plants or something? How do I say: "Please send me a single copy of Issue two of Galaxies SF. My address is: xxxxx. Many thanks... Steve."? Anyone? | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
I usually use online translation software for this sort of thing. It's not perfect, of course, but if the note is short and simple I thing the room for error is minimized. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
"Pleez senda me a zingle coppee of la Issue Deux de le Galaxies SF. Mon homme est XXXXX. Merci beaucomp, Steve." Thank me later. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.229.106 |
"Please send me a single copy of Issue two of Galaxies SF. My address is: xxxxx. Many thanks... Steve." "J'aimerais obtenir un exemplaire du numéro deux de Galaxies SF. Mon adresse est: xxxxx. Merci. Steve. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Don't listen to Hubert, Steve. He's trying to get you to propose marriage to the editor. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Er, if you're in the mag, shouldn't you get a copy anyway? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.229.106 |
Curses, foiled again. | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.152.253.66 |
Ha, thanks all (Le thanking-mucho, M. Fry)... Shouldn't I get a copy? You'd think so, eh, though I don't know how to complain either. Maybe they do things differently on the continent. Still, I collect a couple of copies of anything I'm in so if one shows up I'll not worry. And it is a kick to be translated into French... steve | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
I've wanted to be for a long while. I'd love a story of mine to be made into a french film, too. Any foreign langauge, actually. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 192.26.212.72 |
Some people might claim that my stories already are in a foreign language... Hubert's pretty close to what my second-language-French tells me it should be. Although I must point out you made a few errors in the subject line. | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.158.125 |
Oh, did I? Out of interest, what should the subject line be? | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 192.26.212.72 |
If I'm not mistaken, it should be: "Parlez-vous français?" Languages don't take capitals in French; the soft 'c' needs to be represented with a dangly bit (I don't know the word for it in English); and the verb-subject inversion for a sentence requires a hyphen. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Dangly bit: cedilla. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 192.26.212.72 |
Thanks, Niki. In French it's a cedille, so that makes sense. |