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Quote: “Ils sont fous, ces Romains”
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Careful! There are already two French in the Lounge, and only groups of two are allowed ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Don't know which I find the most offensive, being called French or Dutch 
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You're the one typing French! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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It could have been worse -- he could have typed in Dutch!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The way Dutch is written isn't that bad, it's the way it is spoken. You certainly need to cough to spread Corona, if you're speaking Dutch 
True enough: Not all Dutch dialects are equally bad. As far as I known, that hawking when speaking is most pronounced in the dialects from the northern part of the country. I was mostly in contact with people from the very south (without learning the language), who you meet face to face with without regularly wiping your face.
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Rare jongens die Amerikanen 
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That is sort of a funny comment.
By default, you are anonymous on CP. Adding a nickname and personal information is optional. I think that the statements made by any person, should be jugdged by its contents, regardless of who makes the statement. So I have left the CP defaults untouched.
Every now and then, I write posts where my nationality or cultural background is essential for the understanding of what I write, and then I indicate this clearly in my statement. If I do not, I consider my nationality to be insignificant. Judge what I say, not by who I am!
That is also the reason why I have not set up a nickname. While some readers may learn and recognize my "member number", and correlate my statements in one discussion with those of another, to the majority of readers, a member number is "someone", so they can relate to what I write in that post, regardless of who I am.
When you obviously consider what I say based on the assumption that I am from the USA, you are obviously free to do so, even if it isn't correct. I have deliberately left CP defaults untouched: When an assumed US nationality steers the readers' understanding of what I say, so would it be steered if I change it to my true, Norwegian nationality. I prefer not to have my statements rejected, praised or whatever, based on my nationality, but by the statements alone. I defeat such judgements by leaving the defaults untouched.
I really do not understand why CP cannot handle an unspecified nationality in the same way as an unspecified nickname.
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Quote: I really do not understand why CP cannot handle an unspecified nationality in the same way as an unspecified nickname.
Maybe you can post this as a suggestion in the "Site Bugs / Suggestions" forum.
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I and my family derived a lot of pleasure from the Asterix clan created by Uderzo and Goscinni (who sadly died in 1977.) This is truly a sad event. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) 
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Everything about the stories sings with joy -- and raises more than a few belly laughs.
And you can tell that the translators put their hearts and souls into the job. I've read Asterix in three languages, and they were every bit as hilarious in each one, with localised in-jokes and colloquialisms cultivated to get just as big a laugh as in the original French.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'll second that, for the Norwegian translators.
I think comics is a greater challenge for translators than plain text. You are absolutely bound by the drawing, and cannot adapt the story to local culture, unless you make a completely new story to match the picutres. One Norwegian translator of Peanuts told that for about a third of the strips, there was no way to use the original text directly translated; he had to make up something new.
Also with regular comic strips, the translator do not know the entire story - it is expanded every day or week. Like Woodstock in the Peanuts: When it appeared first time and given a Norwegian name, there was no indication of the sex of the bird. The translator had to make a guess, and for several years, the bird was female, util a new original strip revealed that Woodstock is male. So the translator would either have to add some sex change operation strip for Woodstock or invent some new story whenever his sex was significant (which is what the translator chose to do).
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My boss said we could take whatever we needed to work effectively from home. In addition to my laptop, I took the nicer of my two monitors (the other one is no better than my home spare so I just left it). I thought I had a decent amount of loot, and really have about all I can make use of, but found out this morning that several of my coworkers loaded desks and wheelie chairs into their trucks last week.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Nothing at all.
Either I'm far too honest for my own good, or ... I already own all of it.
Ah, yes. It's the second one. 
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Toilet paper, of course. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Who wants one-ply toilet paper?!
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We have fancy TP (Charmin?) at work. I never knew you could buy it in a half cubic yard sized economy box until I had a look in the supply closet.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Greg Utas wrote: Who wants one-ply toilet paper?!
Everyone who currently has 0 ply tp.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The two single-board computers I need to program (and some attached sensors).
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took nothing from work. (few months back I brought in an old radio, been considering dumping a couple of older LCD monitors I have that are better then some other people are using.)
they even offered everyone cans of disinfectant spray, I told them to give mine to the factory workers. not because I'm a nice guy (well yeah I am), but because the reaction is so disproportionate to the reality it's just annoying.
and
- a week later they shut down the factory coz cant get materials so them factory workers are all sat at home on forced holidays - likely mostly unpaid.
- couple of can's of spray wont make a difference for me - probably would have sat around under the sink or similar unused till I got sick of the sight of them and threw them in the garbage recycling.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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