Once my team of four translators had handed back to me all the chapters of the French version of Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R to me, I had to go over the book to ensure some minimal consistency between the chapters. I started the editing in the plane to Vancouver but did not get much done until last Monday when arriving in Long Beach. After three days of hard work, here at home, I am now done with the beta version of the translation and I have sent it to the French Springer editor… I hope he will not ask for deep changes as I have absolutely no time left in my schedule for the coming months!
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Beta translation done!
Posted in Books, R, Statistics, University life with tags French, Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R, Springer-Verlag, translation, Vancouver on August 30, 2010 by xi'anFrench clichés
Posted in Books with tags French, Hexagon, Times on January 5, 2010 by xi'anThere is an interesting paper in Times by Charles Bermner about French clichés found in the French press: here are the top fifteen, with their English equivalent…
— la cerise sur le gâteau [the cherry on the cake, icing]
— dans la cour des grands [the big kids’ playground, the big league]
— le vent en poupe [running before the wind, with the wind in the sails]
— un pavé dans la mare [a cobblestone in the pond, set the cat among the pigeons]
— caracoler en tête [to prance in the lead, to be far out front]
— attendu au tournant [awaited at the bend, lying in wait for someone]
— revoir sa copie [revise his (exam) copy, sent back to the drawing board]
— l’ironie de l’histoire [the irony of the story, ironically]
— la balle est dans leur camp [the ball is in their court]
— ne connaît pas la crise [has not been touched by the crisis]
–la partie émergée de l’iceberg [the tip of the iceberg]
— à qui profite le crime [who profits from the crime?]
— les quatre coins de l’Hexagone [the four corners of the Hexagon, i.e. France]
— s’enfoncer dans la crise [plunge deeper into (the) crisis]
— une affaire à suivre [a matter to be followed, a story to watch],
