Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

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Currently translating a manual on how to make a handpump. Background research takes ages but gives great feeling of learning something new.
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@RiaBacon helloooo! i've been suffering from exactly the same problem.
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@lucypepper Good to hear from you. Real life is getting in the way of my virtual self. Maybe I should outsource the overworked part.
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Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.

...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

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Not Cuba

Just finished Skypeing with a prospective landlady ahead of our move in four days. It wasn’t the most coherent of conversations as she kept breaking off and shouting in W_____ (local language) at the noisy mob of women surrounding her. She ended every phrase with, “Inch’allah!” — not sure if this is a positive sign.

She told me she was out of town, in a place that sounded like Cuba — I was confused — but it turns out to be a very famous town in the country we’re moving to, and is currently hosting 2 million visitors attending the Grand Magal.

No more clues … where are we going?

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February 26th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Leaving this place
  • http://myspace.co./stinkyjim Jim

    enjoy senegal
    keep us posted

  • http://unknowngenius.com/blog/ Dave

    Bah, the ‘W’ is quite a giveaway ;-)
    Not many languages that would fit the bill, apart from Wolof…
    Have fun in Dakar!

  • http://ban-sidhe.com Mathieu

    Googling ‘Grand Magal’ seems to indicate Senegal is the likely answer. :-)

    Do we get pictures?

  • Ria

    Thanks!

    Yes you will get photos, once I get an internet connection, a place to live, kids in school, car, etc.