Acoustics - TV5 Monde (2008-05-31)

[Deepwaters]

"Acoustic" is an English word. In French the word is "acoustique," so "acoustic" would be recognizable but not identical. Since the audience for the show does not mostly consist of native English speakers, all of the connotations of the word in English would not carry over to the audience except the minority of it that is very familiar with English (or native speakers of English). It may be that "musique acoustique" would not immediately occur to the minds of francophones from this word, and that they would not assume it was supposed to mean music using traditional, non-electronically-amplified instruments. It may even be that this phrase is not common in French, although I don't know that. There is a phrase "guitare acoustique," so for at least one instrument the same meaning carries. There is also an expression "chanter en acoustique," which means to sing without a microphone, and that is not carried into English, i.e. we don't speak of "acoustic singing" with that meaning.

So perhaps for a French audience that connotation isn't there, and we are just seeing it automatically because that word "acoustic" is in our language and for us carries that connotation.

[Topaz]

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[Rachelizee]

Thanks for setting me straight guys.I thought I might have been missing something

[NoHandleBars]

Is this going to be Re aired anytime soon?

[User22]

Does anyone have subtitles or a translation for the whole program? Because I'm watching it and feel like I'm missing out on a good interview....Thanks!

Can't view this video now to check whether it's subtitled or not. I believe it should be.
http://alizeeamerica.com/play/?v=99

[User22]

Originally Posted by Merci Alizée

Can't view this video now to check whether it's subtitled or not. I believe it should be.
http://alizeeamerica.com/play/?v=99

Again, you just made me look stupid Thanks for showing me just how much I visit the video section

[severianb]

The video section here is awesome. The idea of loosing the subtitles like this makes me sick. I've got all the videos downloaded, is there anyway to get the subtitiles?

Originally Posted by severianb

The video section here is awesome. The idea of loosing the subtitles like this makes me sick. I've got all the videos downloaded, is there anyway to get the subtitiles?

I have metioned it earlier also that we are not going to loose subtitled videos.
I'll look for subtitles when I get my computer back.

[DrSmith]

http://alizeeamerica.com/subtitles/99.srt (right click -> save as)