Ask M. White for help with French translation

okay, my friend who just moved here wants to know where the famous SF "gourmet" coffee is in the hood and it all seems to be in the mission/hayes/soma (ritual, blue bottle, 4 barrel, philz, sightglass). i don't drink enough to be an authority but i know you are.

(sorry this has nothing to do with French translations)

No worries. If he wants real SF, send him to Blue Bottle over off of Octavia or Pete's or whatever. I used to work at Trieste as a teen (in Sausalito) and I have nothing against that old school vibe or the new environmentally and politically correct one, either, but the coffee is just too bitter for me.

Trieste is now Cafe Rome (?) now right? AlexInSF's wife LOVES the place across the street from there with a funny name, I still need to try it though.

The best part of Cafe Trieste (and whatever it's called now) was/is that iced coffee has FREE REFILLS which is awesome after riding 100 miles on a hot day and you still have to contend with that hill back up to the GGB and your legs are saying "oh hell naw".

Caffe Divino? You're talking Sausalito, right?

the one Mrs. In SF likes is called Cibo which isn't such a funny name after all:

http://cibosausalito.com/

Oh, right. I haven't been. I'll have to check it out the next time I'm grannysitting.

Cibo's basically 'chow' in Italian, I think.

yeah, remember that NYC band from the mid-90s that was named Cibo Matto which had the double meaning of "crazy food" in italian or "total ingenuity" in japanese.

I never thought about their name much. That's pretty cool, though. I remember Japanese dudes in Japan always wanting me to say 'eighty-five' in Italian 'cause it's pretty close to 'grandpa's got a boner' or something.

interweb language translators cant be trusted, can they? i'm pretty sure these translators make you look retarded to the reader of the language like "i type this in translator now English good I speak" kinda thing...........

They tend to transliterate which isn't translation and they translate idioms literally which sounds very odd. If a French guy says of someone that he has a body hair in his palm, in French it means he's lazy. In English, it sounds like you're fuckin' weird.

My dad sometimes sends me greetings he's run through babelfish. They usually just sound like the ravings of a sweet but highly demented person.

ok, are "confetti" (not fr., i know) and "confit" based on the same root?

i woke up this morning with the phrase "duck confetti" in my head, god knows why.

Apparently.

Anatra confetta sounds delizioso.

or rather deliziosa

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=confetti

lol related to "confection" even

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=confection

stuff like this is so interesting to me

really no idea where "duck confetti" came from

One heck of a weird parade?

duck with candied almonds might be pretty good

Let's face it, duck is awesome. Smoked, confit, roast, etc...

so is the french meaning that it is "prepared" duck or that it is little bits of duck?

it's a v similar process to making pulled pork BBQ actually - i.e. it marinates in a dry rub and then is slow-roasted for a long time, then often put in a frying pan with the juices and a pinch of brown sugar

http://www.wordreference.com/fren/confit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_confit

We're making pommes de terre à la sarladaise over Labor Day weekend

Hello! I have a request for help with French translation! Might someone be able to help?

I recently ordered a reproduction of a book from the BNF - they sent me the following form: http://www.qfpost.com/download.do?get=7570c3b21044615a2eb0770db1d38108

I think I mostly understand it, except what are "le règlement au département de la reproduction" that I must send alongside the tear-off bit?

Gravel, I can't open that for some reason. Can you c&p?

it means enclose the payment with that slip and send it to the address above

"Partie détachable à retourner obligatoirement avec le règlement au département de la reproduction à l'adresse de facturation ci-dessus"

sorry 2 hijack your thread, MW

règlement being payment (settlement most literally).

sorry 2 hijack your thread, MW

Faites comme chez vous, Tracer!

ca me ferait plaisir, MW

i always have to remind myself that it doesn't mean "regulation" or "rule"

I remember from 'règlement de comptes' when they're talking about gang wars. It's kind of annoying when there's 'paiement' but maybe it's a legal thing.

Thanks guys! That makes perfect sense.

Il n'y a pas de quoi

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