Tuesday, August 24, 2004

The amazing wonders of Powerpoint presentation

Hmm.

I'm sure most of you guys have fooled around with powerpoint presentation: it's fun isn't it, with it's animations and sounds availible, you can make your audience laugh and scream with mirth, but let me share with you how an audience managed to laugh and scream because of the presenter, not the slides.

The french language: not easy to learn, for some schools, a failure is considered acceptable, and anything above reasonable is a near-miracle. Also a pain in the crack for someone who has no experience whatsoever speaking the language.

So it happens that a person requiring to present a presentation on a french architect realises that he or in my case she, has a big problem, especially if she isn't that wunderfool with English in its most basic form.

Throughout the presentation, the animations were cool, but unrelated to the presentation itself, and her ability to pronounce words such as La Tourette came out as ' hmm, erm, Larrr..... Toooooorettti?'. You get the picture, so as you can see, Fench is really hard for us.

anyhow, if there's anyone who can speak french well enough, next time, you're up to give a speech on Le Corbusier.(pronounced as 'Leeeee..... erm, Cohbooousihayer?')

Cheers,

Crawldaddy

Hard rockers unite!!! Someday rock will rule again...

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