French' em up

[lamerezouille]

Are you writing a fic ?

Do you want your characters to look all cool and/or fancy and/or snobbish and/or arrogant
and make them SPEAK FRENCH ?

Well, you're in the right place !

This idea came to me while reading fics where characters were either French or supposed to be fluent in French, but what they said just didn't make sense.

As a French person

Comments

[ewokette_83]

haha ! tout a fait d'accord !
parfois c'est assez marrant ^^

de temps en temps je poste des commentaires pour corriger pas toujours pris en compte...

au fait, bonne initiative !

[lamerezouille]

Merci!

C'est vrai que ça fait souvent bizarre de corriger certaines choses en commentaires, surtout quand la fic était à part ça très bien (ou le contraire!).

En tous cas, ça n'a pour l'instant rien donné. Tant pis!

:-)

[ewokette_83]

faut persévérer !

peut-être en mettant ce post en en-tête en changeant la date comme certain le font,
il sera sans doute plus souvent lu et apprécié ;)

[lamerezouille]

Oui, je vais peut-être le faire... Je ne suis pas encore certaine que ça ait une efficacité énorme, mais pourquoi pas?

[megyal]

:D I wrote a fic where someone was supposed to be speaking french, but because I don't speak it, I bothered a few french-speaking folks about it and wrote most of the 'french' in english anyway. Ahh. Yeah. ANYWAY I just came over to tell you that I loved your fic in the dracotops_harry fest. It made me most happy!

[lamerezouille]

Thanks so much! I'm glad my fic made you happy!

And if you ever need to write fic-french again, I'd really be happy to help!

:D

[lamerezouille]

Hi!

Thank you so very much! (and so sorry for the late reply) I'm glad you like my fics!

The french-picking idea came to me because when I started reading fanfic there were French mistakes in a few of them. Since then not a lot have turned up that I know of, so I guess it doesn't really matter anymore, but I'm always glad if I can help in any way, and this is the best I can!

I've never encountered these kind of mistakes in actual books, though, and I'm glad because it would frustrate me so much...

Thanks again for the nice comment!

[sophie_french]

Awesome idea! ;-) it's so easy for us native-speakers to help make the sentences right!
Anyway, happy to see I'm not the only French around! (Right, just discovering the whole fanfic world but hey!)

[lamerezouille]

Hello fellow French citizen! And welcome to the beautiful world of fanfictions (I personally don't remember what I was doing with my life before entering it, but that's not something to worry about).

:)