unsatisfiedus wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 1:38 pm
their website is hilarious.
Hah, it is worthy of a Master's Thesis in Cultural Anthropology, for sure. Something about the intersection of French and English cultures of communication, business, self-expression.
I totally get it, but can also totally see how someone without extensive experience living and working with French people in a multilingual creative work context wouldn't.
Most of the specs are presented semi-conversationally. Serge seems very very proud of his work (rightfully) and wants to tell you all about it. He probably doesn't even really want to sell a board to someone who's not willing to listen. It's part of that "we build a relationship and an understanding, then, maybe we talk business" thing that so much of the world operates on. The Japanese tend this way too.
I couldn't find sidecut radius, but there's like two paragraphs explaining how the curve and the flex he designed is perfectly balanced. It screams "just trust me."
(Sounds similar to gentemstick's marketing approach ...)
Obviously, YMMV haha
Two terms he uses in English which he didn't get properly translated:
When he refers to someone's ability as "confirmed" (confirmé in french), he means "you've confirmed that you can ride reasonably well." I'd say this maps to "intermediate."
And when he says "let's talk technique", he means tech. When we say technique, for the french it would be "la méthode".
Thanks for letting me ramble. Definitely had a good chuckle going through the site (which loaded perfectly fine for me, in English … well… Franglais...
(Sounds similar to gentemstick's marketing approach ...)
