#french nationals

[purple-jupiter-ascending]

Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Siao Him Fa, French National Champion!

[edgecallskating]

Time to take a quick peek at French Nationals, should be pretty routine...oh...

...oh no.

-6 in the deductions column yikes Kevin Aymoz. Best of luck to the French fed making their European and World team selections.

[figureskatingfanblog]

French Nationals ended today.

Adam Siao Him Fa won his second straight national title. Luc Economides won his second national medal, the silver. Francois Pitot won his second straight bronze.

[sywtwfs]

Viewing information for French and Italian Nationals is now available on our website.

[tarutaruga]

please hoyoverse give this man a british accent you don't know how much I NEED this

[verypersonalscreencaps]

Oh Françoise, comment te dire adieu ? FRANCOISE HARDY (1944 – 2024)  🌹

[lionofchaeronea]

The Wind, Félix Vallotton, 1910

[ancientsstudies]

Musée du Louvre by expectolibrary.

[hedgehog-moss]

It’s always funny when anglo writers looking to express a specific idea casually pluck a cool ready-made monosyllabic phrase from their language’s unlimited supply and Romance language translators just curl up in the fœtal position and cry. I'm reading a text in which the American author talks about ‘Haves’ vs ‘Have-Nots’ vs ‘Have-Mosts’ —the poor French translator translated this as ‘ceux-qui-ont’ (the French language: don’t worry I’m just getting warmed up), ‘ceux-qui-n’ont-pas’ (nice we’ve doubled the syllable count but we mustn’t falter), and the beautiful ‘ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres’ (300% expansion ratio let’s gooo! we did it great work everybody.) From 2 to 8 syllables—the minute I saw that bulky thing I knew it had to be Have-Mosts in the original and I was giggling. The anglo author happily proceeds to use the phrase ‘Have-Mosts’ 5 times per paragraph because why not! it’s so quick and wieldy :) we don’t actually need the word wieldy 'cause it’s just the normal state of our language <3 meanwhile you can feel the French translator’s desperation grow as she is reduced to juggling with “those” and “the latter” to avoid summoning her creature. Eventually she reaches the acceptance stage and uses ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres again like, it’s my monster. I shouldn’t reject it

[my-smial]

Hello hello. I have come with random The Sunshine Court language headcanons for Jean Moreau, because I cannot stop thinking about him.

Neil picks up on Jean's discomfort with speaking French at higher than a whisper and eventually decides to use Nicky's desensitization tactics about it. He ropes in Kevin, and the two of them will not stop yelling at him in French until Jean stops flinching whenever he hears it.

Neil lived in Montreal for 8 months; when he wants to get under Jean's skin, he switches to a strong Québécois accent and Jean acts like his ears are getting burned off.

Jeremy and a little Cat and Laila start learning French, mostly "picked up a tourist phrasebook at the library" level. It's 2008, they don't even have Duolingo. It's years and years before Jean deigns to actually speak French to him, but Jeremy eventually figures out that if he pronounces a phrase badly enough, Jean will correct him out of shear pain. Jean probably picks up that Jeremy knows more than he's letting on when he makes a comment in one of Jean and Kevin's conversations.

The most unlikely, but I find it fun: Jean's family is old money enough that they actually still speak the local Provençal language of southeast France. Jean mostly speaks standard French, but his parents ensured that he can carry a conversation in Provençal out of some twisted disdain for Paris as a power center. Evidence: this is also the kind of person who would name their child Jean-Yves, lmao, a name that was most popular in the 1960s.

Matching with 4, growing up speaking French, Provençal, and English in a massive port city means that Jean can get through a few phrases in most western Mediterranean languages. In addition, being raised as the theoretical heir to a smuggling empire meant he had to learn enough languages to "not get ripped off," as his father would say. He says he speaks 3 languages, because he's fluent in 3 (and it's common to consider Provençal just a backwards dialect, not a full language). But he can also understand random bits of Italian, Spanish, and Algerian Arabic. Some he learned formally, some he picked up from other kids while playing little league exy.

When he gets comfortable on the Trojan's court, he starts yelling back sometimes when little multilingual groups form and chatter, and every time he demonstrates a new language the Trojans lose their shit. Jean has his typical disdain for their excitement; his childhood exy court sounded exactly like this and he doesn't get why they're so impressed.

They keep pulling the "sorry, he doesn't speak English" trick to get annoying fans and reporters off their back for a long time after it should have stopped working. He's given full interviews, come on. Use your brain.

[sandflakedraws]

i hope all hickdory fans out there know that german dub JD is absolutely excellent, one of my favs

here. have a dub highlight reel i made just for y'all

[coline7373]

[figureskatingfanblog]

Today was day five of the French Nationals.

Lorine Schild won her first National title. 13-year-old Stefania Gladki won her first National medal, the silver. Lea Serna won her sixth National medal, the bronze.

Camille and Pavel Kovalev won their third straight National title. Oceane Piegard and Denys Strekalin won their first national medal, the silver. Lori-Ann Matte and Noel-Antoine Pierre won their first National medal, the bronze.

Adam Siao Him Fa leads the Men's event. Kevin Aymoz is in second, and Luc Economides is currently in third.

[thepaintedroom]

Pierre Bonnard (French, ) • Nude in an Interior • 1935 • National Gallery of Art, Washington

[hard--headed--woman]

DANS VOTRE CUL LE RN.

[lionofchaeronea]

October, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1878