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December 10th, 2009

maidden

09:59 pm - Book 14 I really doubt I'll make it to 27 by the end of the month... It's been a bad year for reading. 14. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky ( Books 1-13 ) Tags: books

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December 7th, 2009

makingthematrix

04:55 pm - Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordonnance_de_Villers-Cotter%C3%AAts A linguistic curiosity: The French Wikipedia holds an article about a royal ordinance from 1539 for preservation and unification of the French language. So, like, the king wanted the French language to stay the same and have a privileged position among many Romance dialects of France in the XVI century. The text of the ordinance is quoted in Wikipedia along with translation from its XVI century original to the modern French.

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