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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: holzwurm on December 08, 2009, 10:31:56 PM

Title: Anyone speak French?
Post by: holzwurm on December 08, 2009, 10:31:56 PM
Apparently the gun I sent to Switzerland has made the front page of the area news. She has sent photo's of the Front page and the rest of the article on another page.Unfortunately it's all in French (what else?) except my name. Anyone care to do some translating for me?
 :-[
Title: Re: Anyone speak French?
Post by: longcruise on December 08, 2009, 11:55:09 PM
My wife may be able to help out on that.  She would have some trouble with firearms specific words but we could probably help her through that.

Another thing you could try is to scan it to a pdf, copy and past the text into a word processor to make a text document and then copy and paste into one of the internet translation sites.
Title: Re: Anyone speak French?
Post by: holzwurm on December 09, 2009, 12:17:15 AM
the trouble with any computer translations is the image is a photograph of a news paper. The Lady in Switzerland wrote an article about the rifle I gave them but it's in the French speaking part of Switzerland. It must have been big news over there - it made front page above the fold! :D

Send me your email & I'll fwd the pictures.
Title: Re: Anyone speak French?
Post by: JTR on December 09, 2009, 02:14:51 AM
Sweet!
Looking forward to the translation!
John
Title: Re: Anyone speak French?
Post by: holzwurm on December 09, 2009, 02:36:18 AM
see what I mean  ;D

(https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv305%2FJerryCrawford%2Fnewspaper2.jpg&hash=85bf0398dde0054faff01aa23f1c05804002af04)

Title: Re: Anyone speak French?
Post by: Kermit on December 09, 2009, 02:44:13 AM
My wife could be of help as well. Was pretty fluent as a student over there.

This must be pretty good for US-Suisse relations! Good on ya!
Title: Re: Anyone speak French?
Post by: JTR on December 09, 2009, 02:53:25 AM
I think the headline says something like;
A luxury rifle returned from America,,,, or something like that.
John
Title: Re: Anyone speak French?
Post by: Kermit on December 09, 2009, 03:17:52 AM
"Le Locle rifle back from America." "Le Locle" is the name of the town; locloise is sort of "from Le Locle."

The rest of the print is too small........
Title: Re: Anyone speak French?
Post by: jwh1947 on December 09, 2009, 10:25:44 PM
Bet that if you track down L'Impartial newspaper on the Internet, that they'd send you a copy.
Title: Re: Anyone speak French?
Post by: holzwurm on December 10, 2009, 01:50:56 AM
what a concept! :D