The Commission’s mission is to create new terms that replace adopted words from foreign languages that become part of common speech in France, so that French doesn’t have gaps in vocabulary.

On Sunday, the French ministry of culture therefore issued new guidance [PDF] about how to discuss video games in French.

French speakers have been encouraged to ditch terms such as “cloud gaming” in favor of “jeu vidéo en nuage”

Retro gaming becomes “rétrojeu video”, or just “rétrojeu”.

French gamers who download additional content for their preferred entertainment will henceforth be acquiring “contenu téléchargeable additionnel”. If that content includes in-game ads, French gamers will be viewing “publicité intrajeu”.

E-sports professionals make their livings as “joueur/joueuse professionnel/professionnelle” and compete in “jeu vidéo de competition”.

The translated terms were published in the Journal Officiel de la République – the equivalent of the government Gazette in other nations. The Journal Officiel shares such Gazettes’ function as the definitive record of government decisions and actions. The Register understands the Journal Officiel is also binding on French government employees, meaning all are required to speak only of “squelettage” instead of the animation technique known as “rigging”.

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Read article about Parisian attitudes. 

One aspect of Parisian ‘attitude’ that many mention is regarding arrogant waiters. We have met a few in our time, but the majority are not. And in support of the arrogant Parisian waiter we present this image.

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Lyon has now opened a museum dedicated to french Cuisine. Perhaps this museum is worth adding to your tour plans?

It is “a museum that will showcase the history, present and future of the French Cuisine.There will be permanent and temporary exhibition spaces, demonstrations and workshops. Visitors will enjoy a space of 3,900 m², organized for education, taste, fun and interactive visits, with, for example, training workshops. When it comes to the tasting aspect, I can assure you that all senses will be fulfilled, and visitors will be given the keys to the pleasure of eating well – and eating better.”

Read about it here

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Funding from the South Australian Government will allow high school students to continue publishing their findings in Australia’s Virtual War Memorial.

Launched in 2014 to commemorate the start of WWI, Virtual War Memorial Australia logs the histories of servicemen and women with details including their units, specific conflicts, places visited, memorials and final resting places.

The database has been expanded over time to include all conflicts that Australia has been involved in, from the Boer War to Afghanistan. A total of 656,000 person entries exist on the site with 180,000 of them fleshed out with contributions from students and volunteer contributors.

With the previous fund set to run out in August of this year, the grant of $400,000 over three years will allow the educational component to continue until June 2022. Chief Executive Officer of the Virtual War Memorial Australia Sharyn Roberts said the project is invaluable for its educational benefit. “We have a strong view that education and commemoration goes hand in hand,” Roberts said. “It helps students understand how to contribute to our understanding of history – it’s history in action. “Over 2000 students will make 2000 contributions by the end of the year.”

She said the project gives history teachers the confidence they need to inspire their students by way of one-on-one consultations with historians and ready access to resource sheets. “The stronger the passion and commitment is, the more likely that’s passed on to the students,” said Roberts.

Roberts said they plan to grow the Virtual Memorial by the end of the year by uploading 800,000 records from the Australian War Memorial to bring the site to to a total of 1.45 million entries.

There are 21,000 registered contributors, a third from South Australia, who document and update the profiles of all the servicemen and women.

“We have one contributor who is cycling along the western front and photographing headstones of World War I servicemen and uploading them to the site,” said Roberts. Contributor Susan McKenna is thankful for the service the Virtual War Memorial has done for her research on memorialised serviceman Eric Dyson. “After 35 years of visiting Eric’s grave, researching his records & commemorating his service I have finally seen his photo,” McKenna wrote on the memorial site.

“As a student I used to walk past his memorial & found the inscription so poignant that I remember it to this day. Long may Eric be remembered.” Retired army colonel Steve Larkins established the Virtual War Memorial during a visit to WWI battlefields in 2008. His goal was to let anyone log on to research their relatives and also share their stories and family history.

He said the initial data was compiled from the Australian War Museum’s “embarkation lists”, the comprehensive list of names of war dead on memorials around South Australia that were once housed on the Tribute of Honour website, and other military databases. “We are not trying to reinvent the wheel,” Larkins said. “We are joining all the dots to ensure there is some place to put all of the stories.”

The website, which was developed by the South Australian company Mindvision, is specifically designed to be able to capture all the stories of ordinary men and women whose service may not currently be profiled in official histories. Larkins said that the site operates like Wikipedia, with experts and volunteers verifying the uploaded material before it is published. “All the records are anchored to a source of truth – the lists provided by the Australian War Museum and other sources,” he said. “What the memorial will do is become the community end to these lists.”

He said that by allowing the public to add stories to the lists would mean a name etched in stone on a memorial would become a person and the site would become a home for the stories told around the dining table.

We have itineraries featuring all areas of ANZAC history on the Western Front.

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