User talk:Jean-Philippe de Lespinay
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Translation
Jean-Philippe, I saw your question on Larry's talk page. If you go to CZ:International, you will find a list of people who claim working knowledge of French (and other languages); some of them may be willing to translate articles for you if you contact them directly. (I am not one of them - I know some Spanish, but almost no French.) Anthony Argyriou 23:43, 10 March 2008 (CDT)
- Anthony, thank you for this very helpfull information. It's exactly what I need. Now I can begin to work. Jean-Philippe de Lespinay 01:02, 11 March 2008 (CDT)
- Je regrette que bien que je parle francais assez courrament, le traduction, surtout des choses techniques est audessus mes moyens. Desole.... All the best! Hayford Peirce 19:55, 18 March 2008 (CDT)
Salut Jean-Philippe!
It's been a while since I gave translation a try, I mostly do technical documentation in English these days. I've also been playing with Dr. Wallace's AIML bots too. Can you point to to a URL of your articles, or email them to me william@2038.org so I can see if the French bits of my brain wake up? :-)
- William, I have no news from you. I'm waiting for your opinion about my two articles. Jean-Philippe de Lespinay 11:25, 14 April 2008 (CDT)
Removal notice
Your two articles have been moved to your user space following a decision of the EC (see Case 2011-007. --Peter Schmitt 01:50, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Response
Dear Jean - I've just seen your message to me.
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