Chez Cosette

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Q: Usage de "à moi" au lieu de "moi" dans le langage populaire

Dans le milieu populaire et dans le sud de la France en particulier, le pronom tonique moi est parfois précédé de la préposition à dans des cas qui ne semblent pas être justifiés. Voici un exemple entendu dans une télé-réalité : Pourquoi tu ne me regardes pas à moi !? au lieu de : Pour...

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Q: Is asking to translate a short paragraph from English to French on topic here?

I want to see if I'm allowed to ask such a question in the main site? Would you please translate the following paragraphs into French? a proposal for creating a remote sensing and photogrammeetry Q&A site in StackExchange Network is in commitment phase now All the instructions ...

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Feeds

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Stéphane Gimenez has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Latin [French]

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Q: What underlying semantic notions connect 'studere' to 'to put in, put aside, spare, keep'?

[ Etymonline on 'etui (n.)' : ] 1610s, also ettuy, etwee from French étui, Old French estui (12c.) "case, box, container," back-formation from estuier "put in put aside, spare; to keep, shut up, imprison," which is of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin studere "to be diligent." [ Wi...

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Q: What underlying semantic notions connect the Latin for '(from then) to this hour' to the French « encore »?

[ CNRTL : ] Du lat[in] vulg[aire] *hinc ha (c) hora ou *hinc ad horam; la forme a[ncienne] fr[ançaise] uncore, oncore est due à l'infl[uence] de onque, onc*. This thread redirects you to the elongations of the the abbreviations used above. [ Etymonline : ] [...] French encore "...

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Q: What is the Latin etymon of 'que' in the French « ne ... que »?

I am still trying to understand the etymology of the French adverbial 'ne que', and so researched the Latin etymons of these two Functional Morphemes for more sapience. This question concerns only the meaning in V and VII below. [ Wiktionary in French :] I. (Conjonction 1) Du latin quia, qui ...

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Q: What semantic notions underlie the Latin 'quartus' & the French « écarter »?

[ CNRTL : ] Empr.[unt] au lat[in] *exquartare, dér.[ivé] du lat[in] class[ique] quartus « quart ». Wiktionary states the same etymology: how does the Numeral Adjective 4 in Latin semantically connect with the notions of removal or separation or deployment?

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Q: French and Latin "s'il te/vous plaît"

The phrases si tibi placet and si vobis placet can be found in Latin literature, but they are not particularly common. At least superficially they correspond to the French "s'il to plaît" and "s'il vous plaît". The difference in frequency can be partly explained by the cultural differences in exp...

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sepideh

11:50

Hi everyone

I'm a new member to this site and in fact I'm not learning french right now

how ever I need to translate several short paragraphs into French

I would do it by Google translate but since I want an exact translation, I decided to ask someone do it for it

so I referred to this site and asked in the meta if I'm allowed to do so

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Q: Is asking to translate a short paragraph from English to French on topic here?

I want to see if I'm allowed to ask such a question in the main site? Would you please translate the following paragraphs into French? a proposal for creating a remote sensing and photogrammeetry Q&A site in StackExchange Network is in commitment phase now All the instructions ...

discussion scope

someone advised me that such questions are off-topic for the site

but I can refer to this chat room and ask for some help

would you please translate the bulleted paragraphs into French

I'll appreciate your help

Stéphane Gimenez

12:19

This is what I'd suggest for the first two bullets. La proposition pour un site de Télédétection et Photogrammétrie sur StackEchange vient de passer en phase d'engagement. / Toutes les intructions dont vous avez besoin pour participer activement à la proposition Télédétection et Photogrammétrie sur StackEchange.

I'm not sure what google site you refer to in the third one

Aerovistae

13:28

as far as i can tell, ein, ain, an, en, and in are all pronounced the same.

except in in cinq

talked about this a week ago, no conclusive result from discussion

this is still plaguing me

@StéphaneGimenez i just can't accept this so easily when I hear fin pronounced the second way so much

let me find examples...

(this is how I normally hear fin pronounced, and this is what two people here have said does not sound right~ clyp.it/os2531l3 )

if i click the word on Reverso and do "speak" to hear it, it sounds exactly like that clypit

dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/fin

again, here

Pronounce like a French = à la fin

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i ONLY ever hear it that way, i really don't understand why people here say the clypit is wrong

french-linguistics.co.uk/how-to-pronounce/fin-960fcfae58c4ac9f

another audio example the same as i have it

none of these are the same as cinq

but it is the same as frein, pain, en, etc

this being how i normally hear cinq clyp.it/wlhri1vz and this being me pronouncing fin that same way, which is to my ear distinctly different from the above audio samples clyp.it/l3gjlha5

Stéphane Gimenez

13:52

Maybe the thing that confuses you is that many speakers are merging ɛ̃ (in) and œ̃ (un). Anything in the ɛ̃- æ̃ - œ̃ area in the Vowel Chart is fine for in/un. But something in the ɑ̃-ã area (written in most cases an or en) should be separate. Maybe distinguishing œ and ɑ is one added difficulty for native English speakers.

Stéphane Gimenez

14:10

In fact the dog is maybe going towards a nasalized ɜ, which sounds a little weird to me, but you can add it in the acceptable area for in/un. I would normally resolve it to un, but I'm used to people not making a difference between in and un.

@Aerovistae: Hope I'm not confusing you even more :-)

sepideh

15:54

@StéphaneGimenez The google site that I'm speaking about is sites.google.com/site/sepidehabadpour9069 although the site is in English, I want to post in french about it and tag french keywords, in order to let someone who searches in french, find the post. Because anyone who wants to be a member of the

future probable remote sensing and photogrammetry site, should be familiar with English in order to be able to use it

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