Who would not want to hear a news report about last year’s Ig Nobel Prize winners, reported aloud in slow French? Anyone who DOES want to hear that can hear it, thanks to the web site News in Slow French. Their report is called “Cérémonie de remise des prix Ig Nobel 2019.”
Tag: French
Cheese solution to French Paradox?
Of the many and varied possible solutions offered to explain the French Paradox, wine drinking is perhaps the most common. (examples: [1] [2] ) But not everyone is 100% convinced that the paradox has been resolved once and for all. Some say, perhaps it’s not wine, maybe it’s cheese? A new study (undertaken jointly by […]
Comparative ‘iffiness’ of medical research articles
If one could know for sure how iffy things are for English-speaking doctors compared to how iffy things are for French-speaking doctors, one might reach the same conclusions as are reached in this study: “The ‘iffiness’ of medical research articles —A comparison of English if and French si,” Shirley Carter-Thomas [pictured here], in Language and […]