Bilingual blog
By glazou on Tuesday 10 February 2004, 09:54 - Glazblog - Permalink
I was recently asked, again, to publish all entries on this blog in both english and french. Sorry but that is not an option for two reasons :
- It takes too long. If I really want to make people who don't live in France understand some articles from the "franchouillardises" category, these articles won't need only a direct translation; they'll need a rewriting and some important information about the context, otherwise people will hardly understand the issue. On the other hand, I know that a few french readers don't speak english. I can't help about that. They should get a few english lessons. So, I'm sorry, but the answer is no. Can't do it.
- I don't want to blog only in english about franco-french issues unless my english-speaking readers can understand what it is about.
Next time, an article in swedish so both french- and english-speaking readers don't get it 
Comments
Speaking of which... your html says it's xml:lang="fr", which is true for a good part of the page... but not for an other part.
You should either remove this xml:lang or fix the whole so that everything is correctly tagged (which is quite impossible when you have open comments (note to self: think about this case when adding comment system on my site...))
Who said that French and English speaking readers wouldn't get Sweedish?
Now that have proven they can be as crazy as nordics in snowed roads (www.lequipe.fr/Formule1/2... we should also have French people speaking sweedish.
Svensk på web siden din!
Welkommen til glåzman's webløg!
Go nordics go!
Je crois que je me suis mal exprimé, sans doute en raison de mon anglais approximatif. Je voulais simplement dire en réponse aux accusation d'anti-américanisme, tu faisait des efforts pour rendre tes billets compréhensibles par tes lecteurs américains.
Je suggérais donc en représaille d'obliger tout le monde à faire des commentaires bilingues français/anglais. Je parlais bien des commentaires, pas des billets.
Ma remarque était avant tout ironique, compte tenu du contexte. Elle ne représentait pas un désir concret et je m'excuse de cette incompréhension.
I might be overlooking it, but is there a way (not using a specialized reader) to see all weblog entries _except_ those belonging to one catagory (in this case 'Franchouillardises')?
The other way 'round is easy, but excluding catagories would be a lot more useful...