On the homefront
Oct. 5th, 2014 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwLast night when we should have already been asleep, I decided that a good way to review French would be to watch a TV show with people speaking French. I laboriously went through all gazillion (actually probably a couple of hundred) stations that we get, one by one. Not good for my thumb or the remote. We have lots of Spanish language stations, many duplicate stations in English and Spanish (not just regular + HD, but sometimes as many as four different numbers for the same network). There is a little section of foreign news stations, including one in Montreal, but we are apparently not subscribed to them. Otherwise, the only French we found was a scene or two from "Inglourious Basterds" (sic). I gather that this is a very violent movie, full of foul language, but the parts in tea shops and restaurants that we saw had people speaking polite French and/or German, sometimes with helpful subtitles. We didn't catch much in either case, just words here and there. I was interested to learn that the French word for projectionist is projectionniste. I just went to google translate to check the spelling, and it claims that the Somali word is also projectionist. Is someone in the modern age who just starts the digital projection machine still a projectionist?
I have a yard sign out part of the time advertising the Lexington Farmer's Market. I would like to show support for ballot question 2 (to extend the bottle bill), but don't have the metal prongs to support another yard sign. I proposed taking an old sheet and painting YES ON 2 in large red letters, and hanging it from the porch roof, but Arthur objected. Yard signs seem tasteful enough to him, or mild-mannered, or something, but he does not want something big and homemade. I may have to go stand on a street corner waving a placard to reach many people. I wish the posters said "reduce litter" instead of "stop litter." Putting a deposit on plastic bottles won't stop people from dropping snotty tissues or cigarette butts on the ground.
http://www.yeson2ma.org/wp/facts/
I have a yard sign out part of the time advertising the Lexington Farmer's Market. I would like to show support for ballot question 2 (to extend the bottle bill), but don't have the metal prongs to support another yard sign. I proposed taking an old sheet and painting YES ON 2 in large red letters, and hanging it from the porch roof, but Arthur objected. Yard signs seem tasteful enough to him, or mild-mannered, or something, but he does not want something big and homemade. I may have to go stand on a street corner waving a placard to reach many people. I wish the posters said "reduce litter" instead of "stop litter." Putting a deposit on plastic bottles won't stop people from dropping snotty tissues or cigarette butts on the ground.
http://www.yeson2ma.org/wp/facts/
