The news has hit this weekend that the Académie française, the venerable institution tasked with preserving and enriching the french language, has coined a new official term to combat the social media titan “hashtag”. The hashtag and its concept has
“Les relations franco-britanniques sont excellentes” – really, Monsieur Sarkozy?
I tweeted about this yesterday but couldn’t find a video clip – now I have thanks to Lucienne Magalie Pons’ blog. I was watching France24’s lunchtime bulletin and happened to catch the start of the summit headed up by Cameron
How do you translate an ‘appel’ into English?
I found myself asking this question this weekend, as I was ploughing through a piece of Master’s coursework. The piece we had been given to translate and produce a commentary on was this: ‘Impossible Absence‘ from Hors Champ.org. It is