Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:58:54 -0700
From: Lorna Paris <balloonchick@home.com>
To: Balloonlist <balloon@balloonhq.com>
Subject: attention French speakers

I am teaching a 4th grade class how to twist a balloon dog. . . 

the catch is it HAS to be in French.  (c'est pas une probleme je le
parle couramment!-- no prob, I'm fluent!),. . . but i am not bilingual
in balloon speak, could anyone please tell me where to go to get the
names of various twists, etc. (in French)? I was looking and searching
BHQ to see if there as anything there in French but (as i figured) there
was not.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks

on much the same subject. . . I was at an Asterix site (a French cartoon
character). . that had a table made up with a search capability in quite
a few languages.  It was for finding Onomatopoeia (l'onomotopee). . . So
i would click on crowd running. . then click on French. . then the word
badaboumbadaboumbadaboum would come up.  they also had things for
rooster crowing, thud, hitting, hand slaps, etc. . . so this made me
think that since we are getting quite international that perhaps we
could put together a table or search engine to find international
equivalents. What do you all think.  (the Asterix one even had chinese
and arabic characters. . .probably more but I didn't have time to
notice.).

Lorna