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French lyrics

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I’m finishing a new album of music called Avant, which honors a variety of avant garde artists from the past, and four of the songs are in French (4 songs, 10-15 lines each). I was fluent once, but that was a very long time ago, and I’d feel a lot more comfortable if someone who was a native speaker could quickly read them over and just let me know if they see anything that sounds terrible or causes them to start laughing out loud. I’ve created English translations solely for the purpose of illustrating the meaning I was going for in the French originals in case there’s anything where the intended meaning is unclear. Anyone who helps out will be thanked in the album liner notes and will ge

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r/scifi•

And this was in the context of a despotic leader plotting to undermine civil rights by creating or inflating the threat from an enemy. It even anticipated the battle over where or not the practice was properly called "torture."

[By the way, I know that waterboarding predated the US use of it. Specifically, it was a technique believed to be used by the Chinese, which is how the US started working with it as they tried to train American troops not to be vulnerable to it. But:

(1) its use wasn't widely known mongst Americans before its use in the Iraq war, and, more to the point,

(2) its use in this story by a planet that is a member of the Federation of Planets, rather than the Klingons or

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r/writing•

I'm trying to find a reliable program with a reasonable array of features for creating ebooks. I would like to be able to create a functional table of contents, include images, and have come control over font size and style (I realize that many devices will trump my selections on font, but I'd at least like to choose the defaults for those devices that don't). Obviously freeware is great, but if there's something that's clearly better than the freeware that's modestly priced I'd certainly consider laying out some cash. I appreciate any information that anyone can provide.

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r/reddit.com•

I'm trying to find a reliable program with a reasonable array of features for creating ebooks. I would like to be able to create a functional table of contents, include images, and have come control over font size and style (I realize that many devices will trump my selections on font, but I'd at least like to choose the defaults for those devices that don't).

Obviously freeware is great, but if there's something that's clearly better than the freeware that's modestly priced I'd certainly consider laying out some cash.

I appreciate any information that anyone can provide.

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r/reddit.com•

The movie is "Standing in the Shadows of Motown." I don't care if you don't like Motown, if you love music, you will love this movie. The Funk Brothers -- the largely unknown band that backed up Motown hits -- had more hits than the Beatles and Elvis put together, and yet most people have never heard of them. This doc gets them back together.

It started at 1:00 and is on KNOW -- I'm sorry, not sure where that station's out of. If you're on Canada's Bell TV it's channel 268. If it sounds interesting to you and you can't get it on TV tonight, rent it, buy it, so whatever you have to do. It is awesome.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314725/

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