for those who can speak french

[Tash]

please tell me how you say 'i do not like recontextualisation' in french?! thanks heaps!

[pianonut]

you mean the way theirry speaks.  maybe if you heard it in person it would affect you better.  the french, imo, cannot mangle a language because even if it is terrible english, they put more emotion into how they say things.  for instance, even if they start a sentence with 'how do you say' - you hear musical tones and that soft nasal sound.  they dress well.  and, some have better english than americans.  i've never met a french pianist who pounded the piano, either.  of course, the only thing is is that they know they are the best and stuff it in your face.  then, you have to defend yourself and why you do things the way you do.

have you ever made sandwiches out of croissants.  they are too good!  esp with tomatoes and mayo.

[TheHammer]

If you are looking for a translation...

Either: La recontextualisation ne me plaît pas.
prononciation: La = as in "bar" or "far", without any -r sound
recon = looong -e (sounds like "way", but longer), con about the same as in English
-textualisation = text - u - al (every syllable spoken out, "u" like in "boot", the "a" again long), li = lee, sa with long -a, tion as on syllable, ti = zj (not like zion)

ne me = both with short -e as perhaps in "get" just shorter
plaît = again as in "get", but not really...hard to describe, but no -t at the end!
pas = the long -a again, no -s, just paaaa

Or: Je n'aime pas la recontextualisation.

I think you know how to pronounce Je t'aime, so just replace the t' the n'.


May one ask why you need to know this?

[Tash]

oh i should've just said translate, i don't need to know how to say it...
i'm just putting it in a screeprint i'm doing, in which i've had to recontextualise some old painting, and so i want to put 'i do not like recontextualisation' to emphasise the fact that i don't like it! thanks

[Siberian Husky]

you mean the way theirry speaks.  maybe if you heard it in person it would affect you better.  the french, imo, cannot mangle a language because even if it is terrible english, they put more emotion into how they say things.  for instance, even if they start a sentence with 'how do you say' - you hear musical tones and that soft nasal sound.  they dress well.  and, some have better english than americans.  i've never met a french pianist who pounded the piano, either.  of course, the only thing is is that they know they are the best and stuff it in your face.  then, you have to defend yourself and why you do things the way you do.

have you ever made sandwiches out of croissants.  they are too good!  esp with tomatoes and mayo.

i love this woman's posts

[pianonut]

looks for french/english dictionary. 

[Tash]

pianonut you are seriously the most random poster on this forum- my friends think i go off on a tangent but you are way past my waffling! (that was meant in a nice way:) )

[pianonut]

yes.  i have yet to be diagnosed.  when i was coming back on the trail i ride (bicycling) yesterday, i  passed a field of what looked like cotton and corn - with a black guy tending it, i started composing a gospel/jazz song and singing it to myself (imagining back ups singing the chorus and filling in).  it went something like:

i'm planting a field of cotton
and it ain't gonna go rotten
cause i'm planting a field of cotton
and tending it ' be doo doo'

it ain't gonna rain tommorrow,
cause it ain't gonna rain today,
cause it can't rain on my cotton...
cause i'm tending it 'be doo doo'

be doot doo doo dooo 
be doot doo dut doo de doo
be doot doodey doo doot do dee doo
doot beedee doodet doo.

(janne p. - what do you think?) maybe i should think about translating this into french.
 

[Bouter Boogie]

please tell me how you say 'i do not like recontextualisation' in french?! thanks heaps!

JC, I don't even know what it means in English How about finding the meaning in a dictionary?

[Tash]

ok it was all good, i brought my design for my screenprint into class and i thought the spelling and all was perfect. until daniel, who's either french or from some european country and can speak french, comes up and is like 'ah that's meant to be 'la' not 'le''. and of course i had put the wrong one so i'm like dammit it to hell. and couldn't be bothered changing it cos i needed access to my computer at home. but didn't end up having time to print it so can change it now and make it all perfect again. so d*mn the french for having le's and la's!!

bouter boogie, basically it is my statement on artists using old artworks and putting them into new situations, so like for what i'm doing, i got a degas ballerina except changed it so it's simplified and her costume looks more modern. it's something used by postmodern artists way too much and it annoys the hell out of me, hence the 'i do not like recontextualisation'- i'm highly impressed that i'm actually intentionally making a comment in my artwork!!