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Aug 23 |
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Doit-on écrire « et », « hé », « eh », ou…? Et a un sens bien précis, alors que Hé et Eh sont des onomatopées. Il est difficile de trancher. Dans une transcription d'oral, c'est le son produit et le contexte qui doivent aider à déterminer la manière d'écrire. |
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Aug 22 |
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Quelle typographie adopter concernant les ponctuations et parenthèses Je suis d'accord avec l'usage des notes de bas de page. Je ne sais plus qui disait à peu près : « À quoi servent vraiment les parenthèses ? Si c'est pour ajouter quelque chose au texte, pourquoi le mettre en parenthèse ? Si c'est parce que ça n'a que peu de rapport ou d'intérêt, pour l'y laisser ? » Bref, dans un texte écrit, j'utilise très peu les parenthèses (mais ce n'est que mon avis :-) ) |
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Aug 19 |
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Latin phrases - used in French too? True, it's not formerly written this way. |
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Aug 18 |
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What movies or TV series can I use to improve my French? Come to France, it's the better way :-) |
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Aug 18 |
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Is it necessary to use guillemets when quoting in French, or may one use English-style doublequotes? @awoodland well I think you can ask it, as this one does not answer it (and I would like to know too) |
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Aug 18 |
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Is it necessary to use guillemets when quoting in French, or may one use English-style doublequotes? @awoodland you're right, I should have precise that my experience is only about French from France :-) |
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Aug 18 |
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Is it necessary to use guillemets when quoting in French, or may one use English-style doublequotes? @Jez As I said, you'd better look at the paper version than the online one. The latter is way less strict about French writing, for many reasons (quick editing, less review, windows keyboards :-) ) |
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Aug 18 |
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Is it necessary to use guillemets when quoting in French, or may one use English-style doublequotes? @Jez not as much, but you always need an inflexible reference to refer to. And you'll see, the Académie française will be a frequent reference for this site :-) |
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Aug 18 |
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How can one say “good morning” in French? That's why I don't like to say 'Bonsoir', I never know when I can start to use it... It's always the morning somewhere in the world :-) |
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Aug 18 |
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Is it necessary to use guillemets when quoting in French, or may one use English-style doublequotes? @Jez: kinda true, but is it right to change an established rule because of an inadequate tool (the keyboard) or our lack of patience to learn how to properly do it? |
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Aug 18 |
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Is it necessary to use guillemets when quoting in French, or may one use English-style doublequotes? @Portal Brony2040: true, but I don't use that kind of software, as I don't trust their hability to automatically correct my typing. |
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Aug 18 |
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Is it necessary to use guillemets when quoting in French, or may one use English-style doublequotes? @Benjol: it depends on your OS, I don't know for Windows, but on Linux, you can have them with Alt-gr+w and Alt-gr+x. |
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Aug 18 |
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Is it necessary to use guillemets when quoting in French, or may one use English-style doublequotes? @wok: of course, but bépo is very marginal... In fact, it is very easy to produce guillemets with a AZERTY keyboard on Linux, but I choose not to speak about it, as it is not the major case. |
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Aug 18 |
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Quand doit-on commencer un mot par une majuscule (noms de mois, de lieux, etc.)? Ah, je m'attendais à cette question :-) Comme dit Gilles, il existe des règles bien précises concernant l'emploi des capitales et des majuscules (qui sont différentes et souvent interverties...), voir notamment albin-michel.fr/La-Majuscule-c-est-capital--EAN=9782226143891 |
