Comments on: Midweek, Pre-Derby News http://nice.theoffside.com/nice-team-news/midweek-pre-derby-news.html News from Nice French football team Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:02:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Martha http://nice.theoffside.com/nice-team-news/midweek-pre-derby-news.html#comment-428 Martha Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:23:16 +0000 http://nice.theoffside.com/nice-team-news/midweek-pre-derby-news.html#comment-428 I do appreciate the thought, mele (though you'd doubtless regret it) -- does "awesome" suffice? They're a poor, small club with a genius coach, a tiny, ancient ground and questionable management who sell their best players every summer and yet have had a very good last few seasons. Almost went down a couple years ago, then nearly qualified for Europe last season, and started very well this year. They were like a point off the top when they went to Lyon and lost thanks to an added time PK (which the referee has since admitted shouldn't have been given), and things have been a bit down since then. The derby is Saturday, though, which hopefully will mean a revival. All of which is just a long-winded way of saying: The opposite of Inter. I do appreciate the thought, mele (though you’d doubtless regret it) — does “awesome” suffice? They’re a poor, small club with a genius coach, a tiny, ancient ground and questionable management who sell their best players every summer and yet have had a very good last few seasons. Almost went down a couple years ago, then nearly qualified for Europe last season, and started very well this year. They were like a point off the top when they went to Lyon and lost thanks to an added time PK (which the referee has since admitted shouldn’t have been given), and things have been a bit down since then. The derby is Saturday, though, which hopefully will mean a revival.

All of which is just a long-winded way of saying: The opposite of Inter.

]]> By: mele419 http://nice.theoffside.com/nice-team-news/midweek-pre-derby-news.html#comment-427 mele419 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:35:45 +0000 http://nice.theoffside.com/nice-team-news/midweek-pre-derby-news.html#comment-427 I'm almost considering becoming a Nice fan just to give me an excuse to hang around your blog =P What sort of team is Nice anyways? Powerhouse? Midtable? All I know about french football is that Lille, Lyon and Marseille are some of the best. And yeah, google and personal pronouns don't go well. I don't know much (if anything) about French, but it is one of those languages that uses "the" constantly? Like in Italian pretty much every noun has an article before it and always gets translated poorly. Ex: Il Ronaldinho Fotografie -> The Ronaldinho Pictures (which may seem okay, but I know that that's not what they would say if it was in English.) Also, does French use "'s" (Ronaldinho's whatever) or no? Because again, Italian doesn't, so everything translates to "The whatever of Ronaldinho" instead of "Ronnie's whatever" (I know you don't speak French Martha =P, these are just directed at anyone with an answer) I’m almost considering becoming a Nice fan just to give me an excuse to hang around your blog =P
What sort of team is Nice anyways? Powerhouse? Midtable? All I know about french football is that Lille, Lyon and Marseille are some of the best.

And yeah, google and personal pronouns don’t go well. I don’t know much (if anything) about French, but it is one of those languages that uses “the” constantly? Like in Italian pretty much every noun has an article before it and always gets translated poorly. Ex: Il Ronaldinho Fotografie -> The Ronaldinho Pictures (which may seem okay, but I know that that’s not what they would say if it was in English.) Also, does French use “’s” (Ronaldinho’s whatever) or no? Because again, Italian doesn’t, so everything translates to “The whatever of Ronaldinho” instead of “Ronnie’s whatever”

(I know you don’t speak French Martha =P, these are just directed at anyone with an answer)

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