Montrealbreaks is outta here!!!

montrealbreaks · Post by **montrealbreaks** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:08 pm

Hey all. I've been thinking of changing my handle for a while - I don't live in Montreal right now (I'm in Ottawa for the time being). But, I wanted to reach 1000 posts. So, here it is, my 1000th, and I have to registered a new name;

M. Bréqs

I have really enjoyed my time here, and a few people on these boards know me by my handle, but hopefully this won't cause too much confusion. I just can't stay calling myself Montrealbreaks when I left town 7 months ago!

For info on special characters, check:
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/1998/latin1cs.html

By the way, to write an é in HTML: &#233 followed by a ;
(no spaces at all, character sensitive)

With this, I say bye-bye from Montrealbreaks. L8er!

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:12 pm

Back again - new name.

Sorry for the confusion this may cause, but hey - there ya go. Can't make an omlet without breaking a few eggs, no?

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:15 pm

hey Mr Brééééééééqs!
welcome on the forum!

PS: an easy solution to writing accents is to be french, and have a french keyboard. but then you'd rather not own a car...

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:20 pm

peeddrroo wrote:hey Mr Brééééééééqs!
welcome on the forum!

PS: an easy solution to writing accents is to be french, and have a french keyboard. but then you'd rather not own a car...

Heh. Yeah, you're right. A ce moment, je n'ai pas un clavier francais. C'est une grande irritation... Ma prochaine ordi va avoir un clavier francais, parce qu'ils sont plus flexible.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:49 pm

heh, don't you have an accent key on your keyboard? I'm no frenchie, but í cán áccént like one.

Welcome to the forum, Monty. Now RTFM! And STFU!

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:42 pm

montrealbreaks wrote:By the way, to write an é in HTML: &#233 followed by a ;

Thanks for that! Finally able to fix a song title on my site.

Oh, welcome back!

kabelton · Post by **kabelton** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:40 pm

welcome back M.Bréqs!

greetings from graz/austria!

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:48 pm

Thanks for the kind welcomes all.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:35 am

that is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo........

french.

muthafunka · Post by **muthafunka** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:34 am

Au revoir et bonjour...er.....
To type é on Mac hit option/e then e again, et voilá, é.

puRe · Post by **puRe** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:26 am

muthafunka wrote:Au revoir et bonjour...er.....
To type é on Mac hit option/e then e again, et voilá, é.

yay.........éééé!!!

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:39 pm

on a pc ctrl+alt+e = é

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:42 pm

Angstrom wrote:on a pc ctrl+alt+e = é

Hmmm... ne marche pas avec Firefox. Is this an MS Office / explorer feature?

sans soleil · Post by **sans soleil** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:46 pm

puRe wrote:
muthafunka wrote:Au revoir et bonjour...er.....
To type é on Mac hit option/e then e again, et voilá, é.
yay.........éééé!!!

ah ben...pis comment on fait un accent grave/circonflexe, alors ?

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:54 pm

AdamJay wrote:that is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo........

french.

Yeah, it's kind of funny - When I speak french, I come off as an anglophone with a prarie hick English accent so thick you could stick a pitchfork in it. The thoroughly french looking name is quite a self-deprication with francophones, particularly because the word "breaks" (in the breakbeat sense) doesn't exist in French. "M. Casser" would be proper (though still somewhat nonsensical as it doesn't refer to a breakbeat, but rather to the verb "to break" in the sense "to damage").

That, and it's nothing but phonetic spelling of an English word using typically French characters. It's like pretending to speak French by speaking English while mimicing a Monty-Python style "outrageous french accent". Anyways, I found it funny to portray an Anglo trying incredibly hard to come off as french yet screwing it up completely!

huh. Linguistic humour. as dry as a mouthful of sand... sorry all.

Montrealbreaks is outta here!!!

Montrealbreaks is outta here!!!

Wow, my first post!

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