“Four factors are found to be significant predictors of the position of primary stress: endings, word complexity, the segmental structure of the final syllable, and syllable count. Moreover, this study confirms previous observations on the tendency for American English to have more final stress in French loanwords than British English.”
Dabouis, Q. and Fournier, P. (2024) ‘Stress in French loanwords in British and American English’, Journal of Linguistics, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226724000136.
HeyGen is just downright scary. This is a 30 second video of a 'design nugget' I uploaded (the content isn't important) and HeyGen translated it into French:
using my voice
Lipsynced my face to the words.
It is shockingly good to me. Asking any of my #french#francais friends/amis to do a sanity check on the translation. I speak passable French but I'm not sure of a few things.
He argues that #French#diplomacy continuously changed over the centuries, which can be seen as a sign of modernisation.
While #emdiplomacy was originally regarded as part of a more general service to the king, it slowly developed into a more specialised field of activity. From this the need to a much more profecient education of #emdiplomats arose. (3/6)
Today in Labor History April 16, 1884: Anatole France was born. He was a poet and novelist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921. Many of his works satirized religious and political ideas. The son of a bookseller, France spent much of his childhood in his family’s bookstore, reading voraciously, and meeting many of the writers who frequented the store. He was active in the movement to free Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer falsely accused of espionage. And he signed Emile Zola’s letter in support of Dreyfus, “J’accuse.” France wrote about wrote about the affair in his 1901 novel “Monsieur Bergeret.” France's novel, “Penguin Island depicts penguins transformed into humans after the birds have been mistakenly baptized by the almost-blind Abbot Mael. “The Gods Are Athirst” (1912), about a true-believing follower of Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror of 1793–94, is a wake-up call against political and ideological fanaticism. “The Revolt of the Angels” (1914) it tells the story of Arcade, a bored guardian angel who starts reading his mentee’s books on theology and becomes an atheist, moves to Paris, falls in love, and loses his virginity causing his wings to fall off. He then joins the revolutionary movement of fallen angels.
FRENCH SPIES ‘IMMUNE’ FROM EXTORTION? #French spies cannot be effectively extorted by ‘honey traps,’ reports the latest TV documentary on the French counterpart of MI6.
The reason? Their spouses are accustomed to extramarital affairs.
Yes, my book is set in an alt-history, fantasy version of France. Yes it contains some French. Yes, you will have to work it out from context if you don't speak French.
#French lawmakers have approved a security agreement with #Ukraine in a symbolic vote which forced opposition parties to publicly reveal their doubts about sending military aid to #Kyiv.
Seven of the 10 political groups in the parliament favored the security agreement. The strongest opposition came from the far left, with communist MPs and members of Jean-Luc #Mélenchon’s #France Unbowed movement voting against, while the far-right National Rally abstained.
In 1947, Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919 – 1995) wrote a collection of poems entitled “Prieres Dans L’Arche.” This collection was subsequently translated into English as “Prayers from the Ark” by Rumer Godden. The 27 poems (prayers) represent the imagined hopes, fears, and aspirations of the animals aboard Noah’s ark.
👏🏻“With the endorsement of a specially convened session of lawmakers at Versailles, #France on Monday became the first country in the world to explicitly enshrine #abortion rights in its constitution — an effort galvanized by the rollback of protections in the US. The amendment referring to abortion as a “guaranteed freedom” needed the approval of three-fifths of lawmakers” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/04/france-abortion-constitution/
"Là où on pense qu’il n’y a que machines et procédures automatiques, il y a en fait des humains qui chopent des tendinites et doivent faire des choix compliqués.[…] Là où on pense que les catégories sont claires, qu’il y a des données et des résultats, on s’aperçoit que les données ne sont pas données, qu’il faut les construire et que dans cette construction, entrent de la subjectivité, de la morale et même de la politique." https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-code-a-change/le-code-a-change-6-5342040@dataGovernance
Heard this in 78, fell in love with it, even though I had no #$%^ idea what the guy was saying. Turns out it was a kind of #punk#Taoism in speed-rap #French about accepting the moment. And, um, sniffing glue. English translation here: #music#newwave