BROOKLYN BOULE: Iphone goes french, for those that can't....

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Iphone goes french, for those that can't....

I saw this image on www.apple.com and had to do a follow up to see what it was about....

Lonely Planet French Phrasebook

Lonely Planet Mobile Phrasebooks – go native

Want to never be at a loss for words, no matter where you are in the world? With your iPhone, and a little help from Lonely Planet, you’ll have the local lingo licked.

Lonely Planet, the world’s leading travel company, now offers its most popular phrasebooks in downloadable audio format, specially tailored to make the most of your iPhone. Don’t just skim the surface on your next trip: with over 600 spoken (and phonetically written) phrases in each guide, you can shop, socialise and shout like a native.

Sort of amazing really, the only French image Lonely Planet could conjure up was a game of Pétanque. Not the Eiffel Tour, the Fleur de Lis or even a bereted man on a bicycle with onions around his neck, but Pétanque, how lovely.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I like how the phrase:

"HOW DO YOU PLAY PETANQUE?"

is situated right in between:

"I've been Assaulted" and "I've been robbed"

-Jeff
Detroit Petanque; February 23, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Anonymous said...: ....truth be told, I did actually doctor it a bit and added "HOW DO YOU PLAY PETANQUE?" in Photoshop... Sorry to both Apple© and Lonely Planet© if this is in anyway deceptive......; February 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM

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Pétanque

The sublime game, of French/Belgian decent, played world wide has now found it's way to North Brooklyn under the shade of three oak trees in McCarren Park williamsburg/Greenpoint. As in resent years the popularity, good press and not to mention the Bastille Day Bar Tabac Petanque tournament has opened a lot of eyes to the joy of Petanque. There are of course places to play in Manhattan and clubs to join, but time has come for some Brooklyn Boule. In McCarren park there are Bocce courts next to the running track but alas it's surface is not suited (in my opinion) to Petanque, as well as feeling like your playing in a coal bunker. So to the trees we go, three beautiful American Oak trees ( now more, thanks to the all the groups and support for the park), are nestled in the mid-south east of the park. The trees cover an area large enough for one game and there is a another, that is in the light at night, shade by day and lit in the eve. They are NOT perfect "pistes" or man-made courts, but challenging patches of playable surface, so hard to find in our beautifully manicured urban city parks. To share the surrounding areas with such activities as Baseball, Kickball, Frisbees, kites and boomerangs; and on the odd occasion Medieval Sword Fighting. Only enhances the communal aspect of park life and the people around us.
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I have started this blog to create some interest and hope that players of all levels can embrace the idea of playing in Brooklyn, maybe leading to having our own "Washington Square like Petanque Piste".

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