<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>According to me, reading the reblitz in = original version is far better because it helps a lot for learning all the = technical vocabulary.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since I learned all the basis of the = piano technical vocabulary, I was able to read, understand, and since a = few weeks,writing some posts on the pianotech list.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So I think that translating this bible = is a good idea, but people should go further in reading the book in english afterwards.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>how can you speak with techs from all = over the world when you don't know that a whippen is a "chevalet" or that a a = flange is a "fourche" in french?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One funny thing is that a whippen and a = bridge (in english) have the very same name in french: un chevalet...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Because many techs in France don't know = a word in english about action parts, etc...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One idea would be making the reblitz = book with the left page written in english, and the right page written in french, as = they do with classical books for students who study languages. The problem would = be the size of the book: more than 700 pages...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Quentin Codevelle</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>