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User	Sethesin | 2006-02-15 |
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Message	Toes

User	Starless Knight | 2006-01-18 |
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Message	Have I already posted that much of the story? Sorry, lost track of myself. No, this particular scene is in another book about a female war vet who finally wins equality for women in the military. There is, however, a french/english part in Shadow of an Amazon when she saves Alasdair from the thugs.

User	Aruemos | 2006-01-17 |
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Message	Is this scene part of The Amazon with the US soldier? or related? I have to finish reading that, if you posted any more.

User	Raineyes | 2006-01-10 |
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Message	Try the footnote idea. Put a star by the passage and in a footnote say it’s in the back in English. . .

User	Starless Knight | 2006-01-10 |
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Message	Usually I do that, but in this cases it’s very important to the story. The lazy people wouldn’t get it :) "Why" she whispered, shaking her head, and looking at him with sad eyes. He shook for a second, "Parce qui Je t’aime," he replied in french, saying the words he’d always wanted to say, but still hiding behind the barrier of lauguage. "Oui? Je t’aime aussie - mais nous ne pouvons pas . . ." she said. He was stunned. In all these years, with no hope of seeing him ever again. And the girl had learned french. There could only be one reason for that. "Parlez-vous francais?" he said incredulously. "Oui - j’ai etudies Freancias pour trez ans," she said with one of her trademark sad smiles. "Tres ans . . ." she had been studying in secret since even before he had left her. "I’m sorry," was all he could say, but they both knew what he meant. This is the part I need to work with, and I don’t know what to do!

User	Raineyes | 2006-01-09 |
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Message	When you write it’s always good to make your reader learn. A good reader loves a challenge. All the books I’ve ever read with a part in another language just left it in a different language. This makes the reader want to know therefore look to find out what the passage meant. I think it’s a good idea. I read and write and I love a challenge.

User	Starless Knight | 2005-12-30 |
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Message	possibly, but wouldn’t it ruin the flow, kinda break up the scene and dispell the mood?

User	Munchie_1226 | 2005-12-29 |
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Message	I would just set it up as two in one.... Do it bilangual in one line....then in english in the next line... Bilangual *english* Bilangual *english* You get that?

User	Starless Knight | 2005-12-14 |
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Message	I have wondered . . . but what a waste of silk :)) HaHaHa - well, anyway - what about the french scene - what can I do? I’m trying to get this book finished by january, but I HAVE to deal with this stupid scene. I’ve been tryin to rewrite it to work out the French parts, but it just isn’t as dramatic LMAO - I’m going crazy over this!

User	inspirit999 | 2005-12-14 |
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Message	haha i like that line from the matrix 2 it is my favorite. "wiping your ass with silk" =)

User	Starless Knight | 2005-12-14 |
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Message	:) yep - sounds ’bout right :)

User	Aruemos | 2005-12-13 |
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Message	Thats ok I think Hilary Clinton needs her own adjective..........probably meaning something about sacraficing virgins...or interns to the the moon goddess

User	Starless Knight | 2005-12-13 |
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Message	aw hell - I meant hilarious :) typo :)

User	Starless Knight | 2005-12-13 |
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Message	I thought that was hiarious - that french guy was a really interesting character :)

User	Aruemos | 2005-12-12 |
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Message	What was it the guy from the Matrix said about cursing in French, "Like wiping your ass with silk." Hehe,:)

User	Starless Knight | 2005-12-12 |
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Message	Oh, sorry, guess I should just explain my project outright. I’m writing a novel, and the secondary character is French. He’d been gone for three years, and then he suddenly shows up in the main character’s life again out of nowhere. So there’s a big dramatic scene, and she (the main character) asks why he came back, and he finally snaps and says, "Parsce qui, J t’aime!" and she’s stunned. He then realizes that she understood him - she wasn’t supposed too - and then there’s a whole mushy scene where she admitts that she’d spent the last three years studying french, even though there was no hope of her ever finding him again. The french : "Because I love you!" There’s a lot more french than that. He’s all, like, "Parles-tu Francais?"(you speak french?) and then she replies, "J’ai etudie francais pour tres ans, je parle un peu francais." (I’ve studied french for three years, I speak a little french) That sounds kind of corny and dramatic, I know, but the rest of the book is all action, so it evens out :)

User	Aruemos | 2005-12-11 |
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Message	Hehe, I don’t speak espanol well anyway. You got the jest of it. footnotes and parentheisis would kill the mood of your poem. Per haps a full translation in identical stanza form in the description

User	Starless Knight | 2005-12-11 |
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Message	hey - acctually, I speak french as an alternate language :) Do you really think I should not use Footnotes, or did I read you wrong? I just feel like translating within the text dilutes the drama, and it seems so jarring.

User	Aruemos | 2005-12-11 |
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Message	Hola, chica. Esta uno problema. Pero, Yo no sabo. Debas.....no usar el notes de pie. Estos no esta bueno para mirar. Lo siento, yo no ayudo tu. Buena suerte (If I said anything wrong sorry!!)