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A French guy thought our FAQ "On Being a Longhair" was awesome enough to translate it into French! It is a long document, and this was a lot of work for him. Hell, it was a lot of work for me to type it up.
Despite my surname (my great great great grandfather lived in Illinois when it belonged to France), I don't know any French. There is some likelihood that the guy misunderstood the original English in some places, or that I mistyped his translation in some places. But the way I feel about it is that the work will nevertheless be more meaningful to French-speaking people than reading the English version would be, so I put it on line.
Thanks to Guillaume, a 19 year old guy in Nancy, France, for doing this translation. As I said, it was a LOT of work. It's a great resource to add to those we have for longhaired men.
Any of you who are fluent in French, please go take a look at it! And if anyone sees any glaring errors in grammar or translation, by all means let me know.
Thanks! And enjoy!
http://www.choisser.com/longhair/
Hey Bill, I live in Southern IL. Know where Mt. Vernon is? :)
I live in Taylorville, Illinois myself. Mt. Vernon is about an hour south of here. I have been through there many times. I take trips to North Carolina every year to see my mother and go through Mt. Vernon via 57 south. I believe I may have delivered furniture there in the past. I work for Jensen Home Furnishings here in Taylorville. Thought I would share our geographical closeness. Peace!
As long as we're talking about Southern Illinois, I might as well add that I go to school here in Carbondale! Sounds like for such a wide based message board some of us are a little closer than we think!
Oh my god, this is too freakin' weird...
I go to college at Rend Lake, like less than an hour from SIU. :D It must be some sort of trend to levitate here to this board if you live in Southern Illinois...
You can tell a REAL Southern Illinois boy because he will capitalize the "S", even though that's grammatically wrong. I see capital S's all over the place here. :-)
WHAT??!? You go to Rend Lake? Dude! I live like 15-20 minutes away from that college, my brother goes there!! I live in Mt Vernon, Illinois. You know where that is?
In the 70s, there were LOTS of longhairs in Carbondale. That was one of the best reasons to go over there. :-) I had lots of longhair friends over there, but they're surely all gone now. Most were students and the town was really transient.
Well I'm for sure enjoying myself down here, and there are definitely a lot of long hairs here still. I see them everywhere I go, haha there's even one guy with long blond hair that looks like He-Man! It's a pretty diverse place, which is nice.
By the way, to all you Southern Illinois boys, any of you ever gone camping around here? There's some great spots...
Cheese Biscuit... I live in Mt. Vernon, too! How weird is that?
Give me an email or somethin' if you want. You might know me already. Lol...
I'm a junior at Mt. Vernon Highschool.
I don't really remember seeing you around but I probally did.
I might go to RendLake College too. I'd rather go to a University but probably can't afford it.
Anyone else notice how when someone asks us what state we live in we always say Souther Illinois, instead of just Illinois? It should be its own state like West Virginia.
Haha, seriously, I come from northern Illinois and Southern is like a whole different state! It should definitely be on it's own boundaries.
I'm a freshman at Mt Vernon Township High School, do you ever see a freshman with long hair? that's me, I wear black t shirts and a black adidas coat, my hair not THAT long it's about 4 inches long, I'm trying to keep my hair look neat
Have you ever been to Chesterfield apartments? my email is loserkid872@hotmail.com
Do you have MSN or AIM?
You bet. We always called it Mount Vernonelinoy, so people wouldn't think you meant Mount Vernon Indiana which was closer. I grew up in Eldorado. I worked two summers up your way as a DJ at WMCL, which was half way up the hard road to where you're at.
See, we sure don't talk French no more. :-)
Treyn lives way up north in the eyes of a Southern Illinois boy.
Isn't Evil Milkman also from your town?
I moved out here to San Francisco in the 70s, and shortly after I got here, a client said I looked and talked like I was from the Ozarks. No point in denyin' it. Here most people think I'm a hippie, but I reckon I'm really just a hick. :-)
Hey This is weird!
I grew up in Robinson Illinois, which is an hour from Terre Haute, IN.
I went to college at SIU-Carbondale (class of 88).
My best friend started college at Rend Lake before transfering to SIU. He grew up in Benton, IL.
We both live on the west coast now.
This is too weird!
I feel a little nostalgic, LOL.
Hey Dennis! I'm at Southern Illinois right now!! How did you like it when you were here? I heard it used to be a huge party school, but that has changed a bit!
Hey Bill !
Do u drive an 18 wheeler ?
I could help you with either or both
send me a msg
Awesome! I'll drop you a line. If you're about equally fluent in both, my idea would be to opt for doing Spanish first, since that language has more speakers.
That FAQ is really "ours" - it came from stuff the guys said on here. It's cool that someone among us has offered to translate it - I guess I should have thought of asking if anyone wanted to, a long time ago.
Thanks Bill :)
To the others :
don't hesitate to translate ! Bill has been very kind and patient to give me all the explanations I needed, he rocks !!
I was thinking about that too. There is not the equivalent of this site in French.