A French Lesson

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by brianluedke

I was only hoping for some intelligent conversation, but everyone here has let me down.

WE have let you down? Look at your thread title...you are insulting to others over, and over and over.
Your portfolio is decent, but I hate to break it to you but "yours" does not even stand in the same class,
quality and value as that of 90% of the members here.

Another example of your continued non welcome behavior...you barged in on Edwins sales thread (which is
against forum policy much less good manners) and berated him in an insulting and obnoxious manner.
Most members here know Edwin by long standing reputation in the domain community, and most here
would stake their reputation that what he is selling is indeed an excellent list. You need to change your attitude
if you want to participate here, I think comments on the thread from members, Olney etc. make that pretty clear.
You should heed the advice.

[L@@K]

To be more constructive, here's my point of view about articles.

There are several reasons why I was advicing you to avoid Le, La, Les, and L:

1. For subdomains
For example you can not do voyage.lafrique (travel), nor meteo.lafrique (weather).
It sounds awfull. Better voyage.afrique and meteo.afrique, it's obvious.

2. Difficulties for a non native speaker
Sometimes, it can be great with les or le for example, because, with them, you generalize to entire market as I said in a previous post.
BUT, it's very difficult for a non native speaker because you had to hear it.
Does it sound great or not ?
I was reading the posts about french domains and a french member said that he like letravail instead of travail. For him, it sounds better (for me as well).
You see it's all personal opinions, and most important, how it sounds to your ears.

It's why, again, i would advice all members to avoid le, la, les, because of these difficulties or simply ask. There's several native here, and they don't lie.

Hope it can help.

[burnsinternet]

I am no French teacher, but I would happily trade my leFrançais.com for Français.com in a New York minute.

Call me crazy, Brian, but the invitation is open to the owner(s) of Français.com down in Florida!

[yanni]

Originally Posted by brianluedke

What was my point? Did you read my initial post?

You just run past the entire discussion and seize hold of some tiny point of interest, presumably trying to steer clear of the real discussion. Is it because you have nothing to say about the thrust of my argument?

http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=...chercher&meta=

That tiny point of interest as you refer to it, is what makes a world of difference as to the future income stream and/or resale value of a domain.

You just don't wanna see it due to your obsession with trying to teach members here proper French Grammar.
Internet search dynamics don't always follow "proper" procedure.

Would a Francophone looking to buy air-tickets or an aircraft search for L'avion or avion? That is the question you should ask yourself and proceed accordingly.

Personally, after seeing the SE results (both free listings and paid adverts), I would say the latter.

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by yanni

You just don't wanna see it due to your obsession with trying to teach members here proper French Grammar. Internet search dynamics don't always follow "proper" procedure.

I don't believe Brian is native French speaker, and also guessing all he was able to register were the domain
versions with "articles". He wishes to think of them as more valuable, and is trying to convince others of the
same, perhaps in hopes this thread would bolster his sales pitches. Yanni and L@@K are correct that the
internet does not always follow textbook grammer.

[nicb5]

Originally Posted by L@@K

To be more constructive, here's my point of view about articles.

There are several reasons why I was advicing you to avoid Le, La, Les, and L:

1. For subdomains
For example you can not do voyage.lafrique (travel), nor meteo.lafrique (weather).
It sounds awfull. Better voyage.afrique and meteo.afrique, it's obvious.

2. Difficulties for a non native speaker
Sometimes, it can be great with les or le for example, because, with them, you generalize to entire market as I said in a previous post.
BUT, it's very difficult for a non native speaker because you had to hear it.
Does it sound great or not ?
I was reading the posts about french domains and a french member said that he like letravail instead of travail. For him, it sounds better (for me as well).
You see it's all personal opinions, and most important, how it sounds to your ears.

It's why, again, i would advice all members to avoid le, la, les, because of these difficulties or simply ask. There's several native here, and they don't lie.

Hope it can help.

Word. And that's from another french native.

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Mr leader ...I think you need to add 1 and 1, take a step back and call off that pityful so called lesson of yours. I think for the number of times it's been discussed, people have made up their mind about articles in french domains and there is just no way we need to "debate" this all over again.

Oh and Brian, I am curious as for what you have to say about this. I have about 100 french IDNs and haven't registered a single one with an article. Am I an "ignoramuse" considering the fact that I am a native french speaking person from Quebec and that I have spoken french for every single day in my life? Should I delete all my domains? Are they worth more than regfee? I really look forward to your answer. You ARE the french leader after all...

Edit: Clarified my post.

[blastfromthepast]

Originally Posted by nicb5

Should I delete all my domains? Are they worth more than regfee? I really look forward to your answer. You ARE the french leader after all...

Please do not delete your domains. Please push your domains to my account. PM for details.

[nicb5]

Originally Posted by blastfromthepast

Please do not delete your domains. Please push your domains to my account. PM for details.