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Two very good books on Laguiole and French regional knives. Christian Lemasson is an excellent historian of the French knife.Two very good books about French knives. Unfortunately there seems to be no English language edition
Even good stuff like reverso needs a grain of salt, especially about local words translation. Google translate is a top provider of great laughs, preceded only by Chinese instruction manuals!
True! Also the German word for sheath makes good laughs.Even good stuff like reverso needs a grain of salt, especially about local words translation. Google translate is a top provider of great laughs, preceded only by Chinese instruction manuals!
There's a feature in the translation app on Android phones that uses your camera to read an translate text. I've used it for Chinese. Worth it try for French or German.
That’s the one I meant
Sorry to be crude, but this is exactly the kind of arrogance the French were criticized for when their idiom ruled the Old World... including Benjamin Franklin. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. (but where's the Latin gone?)
Well, I hate to burst your bubble....... but there are only a handful of European publishers big enough to "just publish" a book in the US or the UK. You need translators, distributor network etc. etc. etc.......How many US publishing houses with an international reach do print books about knives? I can give you an answer! NONE, ZILCH, NOTHING. A French or German author writing a book about knives is in heaven when he finds a publisher with a national reach. Thanks to Amazon he will be able to sell his books all over the world. But hoping to have such a niche work translated into English is delusional. Unless you go the way of self publishing, but that is a slippery slope with 90% of the results being worse then sub standard.
+1 and not forgetting Mr Lemasson who insisted for top quality picture repros, at the expense of his own royalties!
French does have a lot of idioms.+1 and not forgetting Mr Lemasson who insisted for top quality picture repros, at the expense of his own royalties!
"Thanks to Amazon" : there are many booksellers who ship abroad, and for a lesser fare. (in France Fnac, Furets du Nord, just to name two)
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With presents like that, I want to be your good friend, too.A birthday present to good friend....
Nope, there is a Skyline Drive in Europe too. Named so by the GIs in WWII. The N7 road leading from Diekirch, Luxembourg, to St. Vith, Belgium. The road follows the crest of the hills on the western bank of the Our river, which forms the border in between Luxembourg and Belgium. From September 12 to December 16 1944 the front followed this deep river valley and the US army units holding the line were posted in strongpoints located in the villages along the N7 road. These men were reminded of the Skyline Drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains and thus my home region had gotten a new name.
Beautiful area. On which side of the river do you live? Belgium or Luxembourg? Or France?
Luxembourg, in the center of the country nowadays but I stem from the north, Skyline Drive, the Bulge Battlefield.
A good friend encouraged Annsi Ruusuvuori to publish his book "The Puukko, Finnish Knives From Antiquity to Today" in English. Want to bet he is selling far more books in the US and the rest of the world than he could in Finland? As for Chinese, been there several times. They were all trying to learn English. Of course, their new dictator may want to change that. Publishing in Spanish might make sense but how much of the world speaks French, German, Norwegian, Finnish etc? I have family in Norway. They learn English because when they travel they know there will be no Norwegian speakers where they are going.Sorry to be crude, but this is exactly the kind of arrogance the French were criticized for when their idiom ruled the Old World... including Benjamin Franklin. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. (but where's the Latin gone?)
When I was at school, I tried to learn Chinese and had to go to another School after hours. Today there are Chinese lessons in every French school... I guess in the States as well.
