After all these years in this very interesting and challenging profession, I thought it was time to share the horror stories, the near misses and the tips for all those requiring translations from English to French. Some of this may apply to other languages as well. Je précise pour mes lecteurs francophones que je compte rédiger mes messages dans les deux langues officielles du Canada, l'anglais et le français.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
My readers in Mountain View, Ca. /Mes lecteurs à Mountain View (Californie)
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Adventures in Blogland /1900 – 105 /L’univers des blogues
I started writing posts in April 2006 and implemented the counter in November of last year. One hundred and five posts later, there have been 1900 visits to my blog.
La majorité de mes lecteurs provient du
Il est intéressant de noter que le blogue a modifié mes habitudes. Je me sens plus attentif à l’actualité et aux sujets qui touchent la traduction, la communication et la culture dans un pays multiculturel. This exercise has made me more aware of language and communications issues and the challenges we all face when we speak to someone from another culture who uses another language.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
My international readers/ mes lecteurs du monde

My Sitemeter statistics never cease to amaze me. The number of visitors has reached 1600 today and here is a picture of the nationalities involved:
Il est extrêmement intéressant de remarquer la variété de mes lecteurs et les rubriques qui les attirent à mon blogue:
La musique, la médicine, les expressions idiomatiques et les articles sur la traduction semblent venir en tête.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
How to Leave a Comment on a Blog
Un collègue de la HPCA nous avait fait parvenir un lien au blogue de David Finch qui explique très clairement les avantages d'un commentaire réfléchi. Il s'agit en effet non seulement de laisser quelques mots mais également d'ajouter un peu de soi à la conversation.
As Dave says in his 3rd point, Give something to the Conversation. Our readers will be curious to see another point of view, a twist on the situation or an unusual way of dealing with a challenge.
Challenges in translation occur when two languages and two cultures meet. I am sure that many of my overseas readers have encountered situations where the lack of fluency in a second language created a problem in communication. Sharing their experiences might help our blog readers to communicate better.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Using my blog as a home page/Mon blogue devient une page d’accueil
I recently wrote of an unexplained increase in hits on my blog page and could not quite explain it. When I shared my concern with a specialist, it was suggested that maybe the reader had set up my blog as his/her home page. This would explain the regular visits, of only one page at a time. The hit count would therefore be affected and erroneously show a large number of visits (instead of repeat visits).
It certainly is flattering to know that some of my readers think highly enough of me to set up my blog as their home page but they may find that it is handier to use the RSS function which would notify them each time a new post appears on the blog. In Blogger, this is the Subscribe to Posts caption at the bottom of the page.
It is amazing how much there is to learn out there! Et moi qui pensais avoir tout compris sur les blogues!
Friday, July 27, 2007
Jump in visits/Augmentation des visiteurs
As I was just in the throes of discovering blogging, I said yes and the article was published on page 8 in the July copy (Volume 36, Number 2) of Informatio
Le lien ci-dessus devrait vous mener directement à mon article, qui a été publié dans les deux langues.
My blog statistics underwent a radical change: in the last three days, instead of the 2,3 or 4 hits and reads of one page or two, I have had page views of 7, 9, 15, 22, and 41 pages, lasting anywhere from 2 minutes to 41 minutes. Obviously, more people are learning about my blog and spending a longer time reading my posts.
Des lecteurs si assidus sont rares et je suis certain que cette activité va augmenter ma présence sur Internet.
I do not know at this time whether the meter can tell me what posts were more popular than others as there are 92 of them all together. I will look into this.