Well, we just hire people that speak the language that we are working
with.....

It does help being bilingual

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tempea, Ioan
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:16 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: Friday reflection: TN participants

Brian,

the french spoken here is OK, the way it is ;o) I already kill myself to do
bilingual training classes, imagine using terms à l'Académie Française. What
are you guys doing in the US when you need to give speaches to anglophones
and latinos, at the same time?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Ellis
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:05 AM
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> Subject:      Re: [TN] NTC: Friday reflection: TN participants
> 
> Never heard of brasage tendre??? I've spent hours discussing the 
> terminology in France and most Frenchmen north of Dole and East of 
> Rennes really do their nut at any other expression. La soudure, for 
> them, is welding and soudage didn't even exist until 1989 when le Petit 
> Robert reintroduced the word into the dictionary, to their chagrin, even 
> though it was current from 1489 to the mid-19th century (again, for 
> welding, not soldering). All the ISO normes use brasage tendre, see 
>
http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/stdsdevelopment/tc/tclist/TechnicalCommitteeStanda
rdsListPage.TechnicalCommitteeStandardsList?COMMID=1714
> (you'll probably have to reconstitute this long URL over the lines)
> 
> So, you can now educate the Québecois in le français académique :-)
> 
> As far as I know, the other parts of France and all the rest of the 
> francophone countries use le soudage for the act of soldering or the 
> joint and la soudure for the alloy, but also for the joint.
> 
> Brian
> 
> Tempea, Ioan wrote:
> > No flames from here,
> > 
> > soudage works fine, never heard of brasage tendre. I think it goes with
the fine cuisine where you pay double the price for one tenth of the food
quantity.
> > 
> > And rest assured, the french spoken here allows anybody to hook to TN.
"J'vais faire checker mes brakes" replaces the tender "J'vais faire vérifier
mes freins".
> > 
> > Ioan
> > 
> > 
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> >>Subject:      Re: [TN] NTC: Friday reflection: TN participants
> >>
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Brian Ellis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >>>A true Frenchman, especially if he were a snob, would never, 
> >>>ever, talk 
> >>>about soudure or soudage for soldering. This is left to the country 
> >>>hicks in Belgium, Switzerland and Québec.
> >>
> >>Merci Brian, pour le ROTFL (my franglais is getting worse) :)
> >>
> >>Boy are you gonna get flamed from les québecois!
> >>
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