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04:30 Sep 8, 2010
French to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Journalism
French term or phrase:Le roi de la notule
This is someone's expression of themselves when they worked as a journalist. He specialised in short pithy articles (jut a few lines) that encapsualted everything. He was a film critic. I have found this word tricky, as a journalist myself, I was trying to think what would be the best term, and the best is"short paragraph" as this is only ever what an editor would say to you to write, do you think there might be another way to say it and any suggestions?
"I had considered myself the King of Concision. Then, I read Kevin Barber's The Century, which are exactly 100 words. This was on my mind when friend and ..."
womenspost.ca/blog/kevin-somers/why-fifty
Explanation: Seems like this guy specialised in articles that were "short and sweet", hence my suggestion. I chose "sultan" because it's sort of in the same semantic area as "king" and starts with "s".
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Maybe you could even go with "sheikh of the short and sweet", which has alliteration with "short" and assonance with "sweet".
Rowan Morrell Local time: 06:33 Works in field Native speaker of: English
Explanation: Notule: petite note, courte publication... That's widely in use within French administration.
Pour "le roi", je suggère "wizard": as, champion, magicien... Mais "champ" peut aller aussi !
Explanation: Or any other number, with or without alliteration.
AS IF what Iole thinks matters in the world of print Journalism. ... We get frackin' nascar coverage daily but a TEN-LINER for anything ...
sports.yahoo.com/.../Media-watch-Boston-treats-UFC-the-way-all-citie?...
However, there was one gentleman who wrote simultaneously for Hindu and Muslim newspapers. What he wrote in one paper, he rebutted in another. His name was Waqar Ambalvi. Dharm Vir used to say that he had never seen a poet who could wrote impromptu poetry at Ambalvi's speed.
As Ambalvi used to come to office, he would give a two-paisa bit to the peon in the stairs to fetch him some cigarettes. But before the peon could return, he would hand in his TEN-LINER, and on his way back the peon would give him the cigarettes, halfway down the staircase. http://www.sajjanlahore.org/corners/zim/lastman/part4/hindup...
Hands up all those who admire a multi-page tortuous mathematical proof more than an elegant TEN LINER. Hands up all those who prefer a ...
patentlyo.com/patent/2008/11/obligation-to-p.html
Video journalist Vaughan Smith, a former army captain, was embedded with the .... yet another notification, a ten-liner: "Oh not another ...
council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?p=94276
Amazing how a 500-word story can be cut down to a brief TEN-LINER because of lack of space given to the editor that day. ...
wc.arizona.edu/papers/91/144/17_4_m.html
A FIVE LINER that told us nothing at all about the movie! ..... But I guess, since the writer/director was a journalist, she focused on what ...
passionforcinema.com/peepli-live/
than British military historian-journalist-author Max Hastings. ... are flawless whether they be a small chapter or simple FIVE LINER. ...
articles.latimes.com/1986-03-30/books/bk-1484_1_max-hastings
Or work in his name. If he was Sylvain, he could be "seven-liner Sylvain". Or "five-liner Phil". "Eight-liner Olivia".
xxxBourth Local time: 20:33 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 36
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