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[felis_ultharus]

It hath now been hours and I'm still trying to figure out how an intelligent, well-educated francophone employee of a major federal government ministry could have thought that the standard English word for "les gens" was "the gigolo."

I can only assume it's the result of a prank by a malicious English-speaker. I'm not really allowed to point out people's mistakes during these placement tests, so I couldn't actually ask her.

I also wonder how many times she's written "gigolo" in place of "people" on government documents. If you get any government documents with the word "gigolo" in it where the word "people" should be, you know I've spoken to that woman.

So, yeah -- it was an interesting day giving English-as-a-second-language placement tests.

Another breakthrough in my editing has put me about one-fifth of the way through my major edit.

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[seal7.livejournal.com]

Same here, by the way- it says current music on my friends list, I was wondering about the Ludwig music too =P
Does say current read on your journal directly though... are you using S1 or S2 style system?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

S2. Though I'm *fairly* comfortable now with HTML and CSS (at least so long as I have my reference book handy, which I just packed up for the move).

[seal7.livejournal.com]

Ahh okay that's it then. I suppose everyone who uses S1 won't see it on their friends page; I remember there is the same problem with the 'current location' thing.