Diacritiques

Via Language Hat, I just read about a brilliant initiative launched by Liz Henry at ALTAlk Blog: a Carnival of Blog Translation. A blog carnival is, as Liz puts it, “sort of like a travelling signpost that points to a bunch of magazine articles. It is a post that contains links to other posts written especially on a particular theme.” She will host the first edition on the February, 28th. Translate a post from your own or another blog and send her an e-mail or comment here.

I’m totally thrilled at the idea, and already planning … English to French? French to English? Or German to English and French?

Yes, yes, I know I’ve been bad — this blog is hibernating, or in fact preparing to crawl back out of its cave better and more beautiful than ever before. Things are going on behind the scenes, I assure you. This cartoon, though, made me giggle so hard that I’m breaking the silence to put up a link. (Originally posted by Harvey Van Sickle on alt.usage.english.)