Frank
3598 posts
Dec 31, 2013
5:21 AM
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How on stage, Jean-Jacques Milteau he sculpts the sound of his harp? No amp but a chain of effects that JJM explains here.
Chain effects of Jean-Jacques Milteau
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ridge
477 posts
Dec 31, 2013
6:05 AM
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I can't understand a 'cot damn thing. What's all this fru-fru frenchy stuff? This is 'murica. Speak 'murican!
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ridge
478 posts
Dec 31, 2013
6:07 AM
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'Murica invented the Interweb, it shood all be ritin in plane and simpull English.
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Kingley
3347 posts
Dec 31, 2013
6:26 AM
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Sorry to burst your bubble my dear American fellow, but the internet was invented by a fellow Englishman by the name of Tim Berners-Lee.
Luckily to help you understand our French cousins there's a little thing called Google translator JJ Milteau Effects Pedals
Last Edited by Kingley on Dec 31, 2013 6:27 AM
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arzajac
1236 posts
Dec 31, 2013
6:26 AM
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Just look at the pretty pictures!
...But seriously, I really enjoyed reading this article because of how differently things are described in french.
Things like "potard de volume". That's a slang contraction of potentiometer and much more accurate that "volume button".
"micro de faible encombrement" (weakly cumbersome microphone) in other words Small microphone.
French gearheads have their own lingo!
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tmf714
2308 posts
Dec 31, 2013
7:00 AM
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"Sorry to burst your bubble my dear American fellow, but the internet was invented by a fellow Englishman by the name of Tim Berners-Lee."
Sorry-Lee invented the World Wide Web-the internet was the result of a group of people from LA-
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Kingley
3348 posts
Dec 31, 2013
7:16 AM
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Well strictly speaking yes. In reality though what the majority of people refer to as "The Internet" is really the "World Wide Web". That though is a completely different discussion which doesn't really belong on this forum.
My post though was merely intended to be a slightly sarcastic response to Ridge's whimsical comment about the French.
The important thing is that there's now a link to an English translation of the article in question, for those that wish to read it.
Last Edited by Kingley on Dec 31, 2013 7:17 AM
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Komuso
271 posts
Dec 31, 2013
7:28 AM
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>>In reality though what the majority of people refer to as "The Internet" is really the "World Wide Web".
Not really, the WWW is just one (albiet large) facet that runs on the internet. Ask the NSA et al;-)
Thanks for the link (and trans).
I've had JJ's Routes album for a long time
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HarpNinja - Your harmonica Mojo Dojo
Bringing the Boogie to the Bitstream
Last Edited by Komuso on Dec 31, 2013 7:30 AM
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Greg Heumann
2536 posts
Dec 31, 2013
9:46 AM
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"French gearheads have their own lingo!"
Back in the Eighties I worked for a small computer manufacturer. The French actually had LAWS against importing new words from other languages - which of course pretty much any new word about computers was. I don't know if they still do - but it cost us a boatload to rewrite our manuals in french. Translation was not sufficient. The only one I remember was "microordinature" (not sure about the spelling) - which meant microcomputer.
So the fact that French gearheads have their own lingo might not be so much that they WANT to, but that the French are... well.... French.
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Last Edited by Greg Heumann on Dec 31, 2013 9:46 AM
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timeistight
1477 posts
Dec 31, 2013
5:46 PM
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"Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything!" Steve Martin
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