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  1. Dec 2024
    1. Pronunciation?david-cReport spam15 years agoBonjour, i am working with, and very much enjoying level 2 RF avec Lauren, Eric and Anne. Just a question re Lauren's pronunciation. She pronounces some words quite differently from the native speakers. Bien, plait, je voudrais, faire to name a few. It's quite strange to hear Anne say something and then Lauren repeat only differently?! My French friends say that Canadians speak French differently to them - is this what is occurring here? Not a complaint, as i copy Eric and Anne anyway, but just curious. This course is simply fantastic and i am learning so much so rapidly - Merci :)Post a reply to this threadMarie-Claire-RiviereTutor15 years agoHi there, ' yes, your friends are right. Canadian French sounds quite different. It is good to be exposed to both accents so you train your ears to understand different accents. You will hear it especially when she says words that include a nasal sound, like "bien". I'm glad to hear that you enjoy the course. :Pdavid-cReport spam15 years agoMerci beaucoup Marie- Claire, I am simply thrilled with RF and recommend it to all that i meet interested in French language. In fact i can't believe how much i have advanced since taking it up. It's remarkably good value with such in depth teaching, great teachers and conversations. I do miss your sweet voice though! Thanks for clearing up my Canadian question. A bientot :DAnthonyReport spam15 years agoBonjour, I can't help but also share your views. To Marie-Claire I am rather curious to know, however if you can be so kind as to answer my curiosity, I'll greatly appreciate it. May I ask you what are the main similarities and dissimilarities between Canadian French and naturally France's Français? The only reason I wish to ask this is because this may affect my family's future plans to consider migrating to Canada. I too am really enjoying RF and I must admit that as I steadily progress through the course, together with listening to French songs and watching French movies, I also amaze myself in how fast and fluently I am able to pronounce French's words now! This is a great course and I know my French will only get better in time. Looking forward to your reply, merci beaucoup. :D AnthonyMarie-Claire-RiviereTutor15 years agoSalut Anthony, you can compare the difference between Canadian French and French as it is spoken in France with the differences between American English and British English. The accent is different, but still you will be able to understand both. Some words or expressions are also different (trunk, pants, trousers, holidays, vacation etc), but still you can understand what it's all about. I hope that clarifies it for you. Canada is certainly a lovely place to move to. :PUdit-S1Report spam12 years agoPlease help me in solving this problem How do you pronounce the words,"FROMMAGE" and "Parfum" in French How do you say "Good Morning, Goodbye" in French ? Marie-Claire-RiviereTutor12 years agoBonjour Udit, The word "fromage" is said much as it is written although you must remember to soften the "g" at the end of the word. The word "parfum", like many French words has a silent ending. The "m" at the end of the word is silent and becomes quite a nasal sound. To say "Good Morning, Goodbye" in French, we say "Bonjour, Au revoir" J'espère que cela vous aide - I hope this helps, - Marie-ClaireRaina-JReport spam5 years agoI'm glad I found this post.  I know it is an old thread, but was also wondering if Lauren's pronunciation was a specific regional version.   I was noticing that alot if not all short words ending in a nasal n were pronounced quite different than what I was used to.  For example, bien sounded more like bee-ay, rein sounded more like ree-ay.  There also seems to be a different tone to a lot of the vowels (like when Lauren says jamais, the -ais sounds more like -eh rather than -ay ).  This thread does help though.  I appreciate that Rocket French is trying to provide some exposure to different accents, but it would be nice to make that more explicit in the recordings and identify those instances where an when they occur in audio lessons.  It would make it a lot easier for someone to learn one pronunciation system first before starting to learn another one.Liss-Rocket-Languages-TutorTutor5 years agoSalut Raina-J ! Thank you very much for your feedback! I'll pass this on to our development team for their consideration. À la prochaine ! Liss

      RF LV2 host Lauren's pronunciation: I am right about: bien, faire, etc. She is Québecois.

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    1. Many hotspots ofagrobiodiversity and of crop wild relatives arealso under threat or lack formal protection(58), jeopardizing the pool of genetic varia-tion that underpins the long-term resilienceof agricultural production and food systemsin the face of environmental change (59).

      loss of genetic variation threatens future food production systems.

  6. May 2022
    1. Indeed, as David Haskell, a biologist and writer, notes, a tree is “a community of cells” from many species: “fungus, bacteria, protist, alga, nematode and plant.” And often “the smallest viable genetic unit [is] … the networked community.”

      Explore this idea....

      What does it look like quantitatively?

  7. Apr 2022
    1. The DICER1 syndrome is an autosomal dominant tumor‐predisposi-tion disorder associated with pleuropulmonary blastoma, a rare pediatric lung cancer

      GeneName:DICER1 PMID (PubMed ID): PMCID: PMC6418698 PMID: 30672147 HGNCID: NOT LISTED<br /> Inheritance Pattern: Autosomal Dominant Disease Entity: Cancer; benign and malignant tumors including pleuropulmonary blastoma, cystic nephroma, Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors, multinodular goiter, Thryoid cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, and pineoblastoma. Mutation: Somatic missense variation Mutation type: missense Zygosity: None stated Variant: unregistered…. Family Information: Characterize germline variants in familial early-onset clorectal cancer patients; The observation of germline DICER1 variation with uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma merits additional investigation. CasePresentingHPOs: uterine and rectal cancers in germline mutation

  8. Dec 2021
    1. The role of accidents in the theory of science is not disputed, If you employ evolutionary models, accidents assume a most important role. Without them, nothing happens, no progress is made. Without variation in the given material of ideas, there are no possibilities of examining and selecting novelties. The real problem thus becomes therefore one of producing accidents with sufficiently enhanced probabilities for selection.
    1. Art Poon. (2021, November 28). Our first https://filogeneti.ca/CoVizu update with B.1.1.529. As expected, number of mutations is well over molecular clock prediction (~13 diffs). Relatively low numbers of identical genomes implies large number of unsampled infections. We update every two days from GISAID. https://t.co/m8w2CjL1c0 [Tweet]. @art_poon. https://twitter.com/art_poon/status/1465001066194481162

  9. Sep 2021
    1. the website i used had over forty examples of grammatical errors. here are the ones i chose.

      1. "first come, first serve." this sentence sounds right when i say it, but the website says that the word is actually supposed to be "served" and not "serve." the lack of the d making it past tense makes the sentence "lose its meaning." this is obviously just verbs losing their endings, which is a sign of language change.

      2. using "me" to start a sentence. grammatically, the website says, we are supposed to list ourselves second and the other noun first. the author of this website obviously has very strict views on subject pronouns and object pronouns (blech). i think this is language becoming less formal. i think (in my world at least) language is much less written and much more frequently spoken. starting a sentence with me just makes sense to me verbally.

      3. overuse of apostrophes. the website states that the only times we are to use apostrophes are when there are missing letters or we are showing possession. in this case, "the johnson's" would be wrong, because it is neither showing possession nor is it making up for missing letters. however, again, i believe it just makes sense to a lot of us to add an apostrophe.

      my website didnt talk about this, but it felt wrong to not include the idea of subject-verb agreement a great many people i know feel much more comfortable being referred to as "they," but they should not lose their personage just because they do not want to use he/she pronouns. gendered pronouns are truly a thing of the past and "they" is just as singular as he or she.

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    1. How is a pseudoconsole different from a pseudoterminal ?

      I'm guessing that's just a Microsoftism to make it easier to search/find things that are specifically about Microsoft's flavor of pseudoterminal.

      I see they don't use the word "pseudoterminal" at all, but they do mention

      ConPTY, or the Windows PTY

      where PTY is another synonym/name for pseudoterminal. So I think we're safe in saying that this is talking about a pseudoterminal.

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  18. Oct 2020
    1. // `lodash/padStart` accepts an optional `chars` param. _.padStart('a', 3, '-') // ➜ '--a' // `lodash/fp/padStart` does not. fp.padStart(3)('a'); // ➜ ' a'
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    1. Phase variation is often mediated by the presence of highly mutagenic simple tandem DNA repeats, and genes containing such sequences can be easily identified
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    1. April of ‘84

      Rigby's Romance evolved from the fifth chapter of the 1898 typescript version of Such is Life. In that text, the date of Tom Collins' arrival in Echuca is 9 January 1884. Although missing from TS, the date of the record is confirmed by internal evidence, such as Tom Collins’ two arrivals at Deniliquin in the closing pages; ‘2.45, p.m., on a cold winter day, nearly five months after the date of the events just recorded – or, to be precise, on the 3rd of June’ (TS 521); or ‘three o’clock on a Saturday afternoon, six or eight weeks after the date of the events just recorded’ (RR 249).