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Booklet - 'Orient Line to Australia, Colombo', Orient Line, 1954 Reg. No: HT 55
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- Booklet 'Orient Line to Australia, Colombo' published by the Orient Line for passengers travelling on the SS Otranto in 1954. It was used by Geoffrey and Hazel Tirchett who immigrated from London to Victoria, as '10 Pound Tourists' leaving London on 3 June 1954.
Geoffrey already had three brothers living in Australia. When they arrived they lived with one of Geoffrey's brothers in Brunswick, until they bought their own home in Pascoe Vale. Hazel and Geoffrey have fond memories of the journey - especially the food, which they particuarly enjoyed after rationing in England during and following the war. Their embarkation material was posted to them before they departed from Australia House in London.
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- A5 size white booklet with black text. The booklet contains various information about the port of Colombo.
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- Donation from Mr & Mrs Geoffrey & Hazel Tirchett, 2001
|12.60 cm (Width), 18.50 cm (Length)
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|Migration Collection, Transport Collection, Geoffrey & Hazel Tirchett, British Migrants, 1954, Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited (Orient Line), 1879-1909
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|Travel - Shipboard Life
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|reference materials
|Text: ORIENT LINE TO AUSTRALIA/COLOMBO.
|Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. (Orient Line), London, England, Great Britain, 1954
|Mrs Hazel Tirchett, 1954
|Mr Geoffrey Tirchett, 1954
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Tree transducers can be trained for use in probabilistic operations such as those involved in statistical based language processing. Given sample input/output pairs as training, and given a set of tree transducer rules, the information is combined to yield locally optimal weights for those rules. This combination is carried out by building a weighted derivation forest for each input/output pair and applying counting methods to those forests.
1. A method for performing probabilistic operations with trained tree transducers, the method comprising:
through execution of instructions stored in memory, obtaining tree transducer information including input/output pair information and transducer information;
through execution of instructions stored in memory, converting said input/output pair information and said transducer information into a set of values in a weighted tree grammar; and
through execution of instructions stored in memory, using said weighted tree grammar to solve a problem that requires information from the input/output pair information and transducer information.
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using a computer to obtain information in the form of a first-tree, second information corresponding to said first tree, and transducer information; and
using said computer to automatically distill information from said first tree, from said second information, and from said transducer information into a list of information in a specified tree grammar with weights associated with entries in the list and to produce locally optimal weights for said entries.
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This application claims the benefit of the priority of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/553,587, filed Mar. 15, 2004 and entitled "TRAINING TREE TRANSDUCERS", the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
Many different applications are known for tree transducers. These have been used in calculus, other forms of higher mathematics. Tree transducers are used for decidability results in logic, for modeling mathematically the theories of syntax direction translations and program schemata, syntactic pattern recognition, logic programming, term rewriting and linguistics.
Within linguistics, automated language monitoring programs often use probabilistic finite state transducers that operate on strings of words. For example, speech recognition may transduce acoustic sequences to word sequences using left to right substitution. Tree based models based on probabilistic techniques have been used for machine translation, machine summarization, machine paraphrasing, natural language generation, parsing, language modeling, and others.
A special kind of tree transducer, often called an R transducer, operates with its roots at the bottom, with R standing for "root to frontier". At each point within the operation, the transducer chooses a production to apply. That choice is based only on the current state and the current root symbol. The travel through the transducer continues until there are no more state annotated nodes.
The R transducer represents two pairs, T1 and T2, and the conditions under which some sequence of productions applied to T1 results in T2. This is similar to what is done by a finite state transducer.
For example, if a finite state transition from state q to state r eats symbol A and outputps symbol B, then this can be written as an R production of q(A x0)->B (r x0).
The R transducer may also copy whole trees, transform subtrees, delete subtrees, and other operations.
The present application teaches a technique of training tree transducers from sample input/output pairs. A first embodiment trains the tree pairs, while a second embodiment trains the tree transducers based on tree/string pairs. Techniques are described that facilitate the computation, and simplify the information as part of the training process.
An embodiment is described which uses these techniques to train transducers for statistical based language processing: e.g. language recognition and/or language generation. However, it should be understood that this embodiment is merely exemplary, and the other applications for the training of the tree transducers are contemplated.
These and other aspects will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The present application describes training of tree transducers. The embodiment describes training of tree transducers, e.g., probabilistic R transducers. These transducers may be used for any probabilistic purpose. In an embodiment, the trained transducers are used for linguistic operations, such as machine translation, paraphrasing, text compression and the like. Training data may be obtained in the form of tree pairs. Linguistic knowledge is automatically distilled from those tree pairs and transducer information.
TΣ represents the set of trees over the alphabet Σ. An alphabet is a finite set of symbols. Trees may also be written as strings over the set Σ.
A regular tree grammar or RTG allows compactly representing a potentially infinite set of trees. A weighted regular tree grammar is a set of values, where trees in the set have weights associated with them. The trees can be described as a quadruple G (Σ, N, S, P), where Σ is the alphabet, and N is the set of non-terminals, S is the starting (initial) terminal, and P is the set of weighted productions. The productions are written left to right. A weighted RTG can accept information from an infinite number of trees. More generally, the weighted RTG can be any list which includes information about the trees in a tree grammar, in a way that allows the weight to change rather than a new entry each time the same information is reobtained.
The RTG can take the following form:
The tree is parsed from left to right, so that the leftmost non-terminal is the next one to be expanded as the next item in the RTG. The left most derivations of G build a tree pre-order from left to right according to
The total weight of t in G is given by WG:TΣ→
Therefore, for every weighted context free grammar, there is an equivalent weighted RTG that produces weighted derivation trees. Each weighted RTG is generated from exactly the recognizable tree language.
An extended transducer are is also used herein. According to this extended transducer xR, an input subtree matching pattern in state q is converted into its right hand side ("rhs"), and it's Q paths are replaced by their recursive transformations. The right hand side of these rules may have no states for further expansions (terminal rules) or may have states for further expansion. In notation form
Its output is replaced by the output given by rhs. Its non-terminals are replaced by the instruction to transform descendent input subtrees.
The sources of a rule r=(q, l, rhs, w)εR are the input-paths in the rhs:
The reflexive, transitive closure of
D(X)≡{(I,O,h)εT Σ �T Δ�(paths�P)*|(Q i(I)( ))
The leftmost derivations of X transform the tree-preorder from left to right (always applying a transformation rule to the state-labeled subtree furthest left in its string representation):
LD(X)≡{(I, O, ((p 1 , r 1), . . . , (p n,rn))εD(X)|∀1≦i<n:p i+1≮lex p i}
The total weight of (I, O) in X is; given by WX:TΣ�TΔ→
The tree transducers operate by starting at an initial state root and recursively applying output generating rules until no states remain, so that there is a complete derivation. In this way, the information (trees and transducer information) can be converted to a derivation forest, stored as a weighted RTG.
The overall operation is illustrated in the flow chart of
The processor 250 and speech engine 265 may be any general purpose computer, and can be effected by a microprocessor, a digital signal processor, or any other processing device that is capable of executing the steps described herein.
The flowchart described herein can be instructions which are embodied on a machine-readable medium such as a disc or the like. Alternatively, the flowchart can be executed by dedicated hardware, or by any known or later discovered processing device.
The system obtains a plurality of input and output trees or strings, and transducer rules with parameters. The parameters may then be used for statistical machine translation. More generally, however, the parameters can be used for any tree transformation task.
At 210, the input tree, output tree and tranducer rules are converted to a large set of individual derivation trees, "a derivation forest".
The derivation forest effectively flattens the rules into trees of depth one. The root is labeled by the original rule. All the non-expanding Δ labeled nodes of the rule are deterministically listed in order. The weights of the derivation trees are the products of the weights of the rules in those derivation trees.
The input/output tree pairs are used to produce a probability estimate for each production in P, that maximizes the probability of the output trees given the input trees. The result is to find a local maximum. The present system uses simplifications to find this maximum.
The technique describes the use of memoization by creating the weighted RTG's. Memoization means that the possible derivations for a given produced combination are constant. This may prevent certain combinations from being computed more than once. In this way, the table, here the wRTG can store the answers for all past queries and return those instead of recomputing.
Note the way in which the derivation trees are converted to weighted RTG's. At the start, rule one will always be applied, so the first RTG represents a 1.0 probability of rule one being applied. The arguments of rule one are 1.12 and 2.11. If 1.12 is applied, rule 2 is always used, while 2.11 can be either rule 3 or rule 4, with the different weightings for the different rules being also shown.
At 230, the weighted RTG is further processed to sum the weights of the derivation trees. This can use the "inside-outside" technique, (Lari, et al, "The estimation of stochastic context free grammars using the inside-outside algorithm, Computer Speech and Language, 4, pp 35-36). The inside-outside technique observes counts and determines each time a rule gets used. When a rule gets used, the probability of that rule is increased. More specifically, given a weighted RTG with parameters, the inside outside technique enables computing the sums of weights of the trees derived using each production. Inside weights are the sum of all weights that can be derived for a non-terminal or production. This is a recursive definition. The inside weights for a production are the sum of all the weights of the trees that can be derived from that production.
The outside weights for a non-terminal are the sum of weights of trees generated by the weighted RTG that have derivations containing it but exclude its inside weights, according to
Estimation maximization training is then carried out at 240. This maximizes the expectation of decisions taken for all possible ways of generating the training corpus, according to expectation, and then maximization, as:
2. Maximizing by assigning the counts to the parameters and renormalizing:
Each iteration increases the likelihood until a local maximum is reached.
The step 230 can be written in pseudocode as:
The above has described tree-to-tree transducers. An alternative embodiment describes tree to string transducers is shown in the flowchart of
The tree to string transduction is then parsed using an extended R transducer as in the first embodiment. This is used to form a weighted derivation tree grammar. The derivation trees are formed by converting the input tree and the string into a flattened string of information which may include trees and strings. 285 of
This is followed in
An example is now described here in of how to cast a probabilistic language model as an R transducer.
Table 2 shows a bilingual English tree Japanese string training corpus.
According to the model, an English tree becomes a Japanese string in four operations.
In 320, a decision is made at every node about inserting a Japanese function word. This is a three-way decision at each node, requiring determination of whether the word should be inserted to the left, to the right, or not inserted at all. This insertion technique at 320 depends on the labels of the node and the parent. At 330, the English leaf words are translated probabilistically into Japanese, independent of context. At 340, the internal nodes are removed, leaving only the Japanese string.
This model can effectively provide a formula for
P. (Japanese string|English tree)
in terms of individual parameters. The expectation maximization training described herein seeks to maximize the product of these conditional probabilities based on the entire tree-string corpus.
First, an xRs tree to string transducer is built that embodies the probabilities noted above. This is a four state transducer. For the main-start state, the function q, meaning translate this tree, has three productions:
q x→i x, r x
q x→r x, i x
q x→r x
State 5 means "produce a Japanese word out of thin air." There is an i production for each Japanese word in the vocabulary.
i x→"de"
i x→"kuruma"
i x→"wa"
. . .
State r means "reorder my children and then recurse". For internal nodes, this includes a production for each parent/child sequence, and every permutation thereof:
r NN(x0:CD, x1:NN)→q x0, q x1
r NN(x0:CD, x1:NN)→q x1, q x0
. . .
The RHS then sends the child subtrees back to state q for recursive processing. For English leaf nodes, the process instead transitions to a different state t to prohibit any subsequent Japanese function word insertion:
r NN(x0:"car")→t x0
r CC (x0:"and")→t x0
. . .
State t means "translate this word". There is a production for each pair of cooccuring in English and Japanese words.
t "car"→"kuruma"
t "car"→*wa*
t "car"→*e*
. . .
Each production in the XRS transducer has an associated weight, and corresponds to exactly 1 of the model parameters.
The transducer is unfaithful in one respect, specifically the insert function word decision is independent of context. It should depend on the node label and the parent label. This is addressed by fixing the q and r production. Start productions are used:
q x:VB→q.TOP.VB x
q x:JJ→q.TOP.JJ x
. . .
States are used, such as q.top.vb which states mean something like "translate this tree, whose route is vb". Every parent-child payer in the corpus gets its own set of insert function word productions:
q.TOP.VB x→i x, r x
q.TOP.VB x→r x, i x
q.TOP.VB x→r x
q.VB.NN x→i x, r x
q.VB.NN x→r x, i x
q.VB.NN x→r x
. . .
Finally, the R productions need to send parent child information when they recurse to the q.parent.child states.
The productions stay the same. Productions for appraisal translations and others can also be added.
Although only a few embodiments have been disclosed in detail above, other modifications are possible, and this disclosure is intended to cover all such modifications, and most particularly, any modification which might be predictable to a person having ordinary skill in the art. For example, an alternative embodiment could use the same techniques for string to string training, based on tree based models or based only on string pair data. Another application is to generate likely input trees from output trees or vide versa. Also, and to reiterate the above, many other applications can be carried out with tree transducers, and the application of tree transducers to linguistic issues is merely exemplary.
Also, only those claims which use the words "means for" are intended to be interpreted under 35 USC 112, sixth paragraph. Moreover, no limitations from the specification are intended to be read into any claims, unless those limitations are expressly included in the claims
All such modifications are intended to be encompassed within the following claims
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I applied for a Vanity Call for the club. Something a little more appropriate, incorporating the town's intials -
Again, even though I renewed my own license earlier this year, I am still amazed at just how easy it is to renew an Amateur Radio license or apply for a Vanity Call using the FCC's website! Why anyone would choose to throw money away by having a certain third party do the filing for them is beyond me.
If you want to do it; but are intimidated by the FCC website, send me an e-mail. I will explain it the best I can and I'll save you the $7. You can use that to buy some transistors or something!
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- Paul - PC4T said...
Hi Larry, I can understand that a long call isn't always fine, though the rhythm is good with CW. ;-) For the time being I use my vanity call sign again PC4T. My old first call sign PA0PSY is too long... Have a good weekend , Paul
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Good morning Larry, I was wanting to go for a two letter call. As it may be a bit easier for CW. Checked the RAC website and all two letter calls at this time are spoken for. Oh well
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This has to be the most ridiculous story I've ever read!! Fly your flags Dawn!! We're 100% behind you!!!
I hope you rot in hell!!!! You are a poor excuse for a human being! Definitely not a real man! Well what goes around comes around & buddy you WILL get yours!!! Sick!!!!!
Nobody wants to let these kids be kids anymore!
Any road closures in Phillipsburg? Haven't been out other then to shovel & find the car!
I walk in that park all the time. Its really a shame that they don't do more to take care of it. Most of the benches & picnic tables are broken. The tennis court is a horrible mess. Both the football field & baseball field aren't in that great shape either. Its a really nice place to go for a quiet walk & I enjoy it there. Its too bad the town can't do more to fix it up & add some playground equipment. And have it patroled a little more. I have seen police there a few times. And it'd be nice if there was a restroom also that wasn't locked up all the time! So many people don't even know the park is there. Honestly I lived here probably about 5-6 years before I found out about it! And I live within walking distance of it!
Its misleading because when I first read the marker I thought those people had died in the 9/11 attacks. I was taken aback since it was like the whole town committee & was trying to remember hearing a story about it & couldn't recall anything I had heard & I was wondering what the whole committee was doing at the WTC...then I went on to read the article & was like uhm okay that's a little strange....
My daughter is 3. She loves Spongebob, but is more into Spongebob things like she has a raincoat & rainboots & an umbrella that are all Spongebob which she picked out herself. She watches him occassinally on tv, but not that much. She loves Caillou. And as annoying as he is I think its a great show for her to watch. She also loves shows like Dora, Diego, Kai Lan, Olivia, Thomas the Train, Dinosaur Train & her new favorite Pepa Pig. We also like to watch Phineas & Ferb together cuz I must add that I just love that cartoon!!! I love how Candace is always trying to bust her brothers & as soon as her Mom comes home whatever contraption her brothers have built just happens to be gone at that split second!!
My daughter had a brief love of the Teletubbies too...a friend of mine gave me a bag of Dvds & VHS tapes for her & she spotted the tape of the Teletubbies & requested it to be played over & over & over....she hasn't asked lately & I think I might just happen to lose the tape....:-)
It'd be nice to see a list of road closures over here in Phillipsburg/Warren county.
It was almost like a power surge, my computer went poof as I was typing & just went off. Thought something was wrong with it then realized it was the whole house. Really thought something major had happened in our house by then. But went outside & saw all my neighbors were wondering what had happened! Luckily it was only off for 9 mins!!
We're all the way in Phillipburg & we can see the smoke. My husband & I went outside to go get in the car to go to the bank when I looked northwest & saw the sky was black. At first we thought it was a bad storm coming. Then I remembered having read the headline on here saying there was a bad fire somewhere, but couldn't remember where. We realized that it was smoke coming from this particular fire. Just came back home & checked to see where the fire was. I can't believe we can see it all the way down here!
You know greenblood I was just saying the same thing to my husband the other day. It seemed like every day this week there has been a bad accident on 78 or whatnot causing at least one fatality & the road to be closed down for several hours! Slow down ppl!! It'll still be there in 10 mins!!!
OMG I can't imagine why this child was not in a carseat!! What on earth!! Such a sad tradgedy that could've have been prevented had the parents had the child properly restrained in a carseat. So sad:(
I'm curious too...where is this lot that they are handing over to the pistol club? I'd love it if that place moved elsewhere. Its basically behind my house & starting early morning hours into the evening all we hear is bang bang bang all day long!
As a mother of a very active 3 year old I am kinda offended by this but at the same time I understand where he is coming from. Not all children know how to behave in a restaurant(even kids over the age of 6), but some do. Honestly I'm not bragging but my daughter is very well behaved in a restaurant. She knows that she has to stay at the table & she knows its not okay to be loud & running around. But we've been going to restaurants since she was a baby so she's used to it. Most restaurants will give her something to color, the ones that don't I bring stuff to occupy her time. But there are parents that don't give a damn either & let their kids run lose all over!! So its a catch 22. Damned if you do, damned if you don't:)
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree then?
The way the public is going to treat her when she's out & about is going to make her wish she was in jail....
Totally agreed Krazy! I just don't get it! I really really don't!! Instead 4 counts of lying to a cop. Come one really???
LMAO hunnter!!! Good one!!
I just wish it wasn't so expensive cuz then maybe more of the locals would go! $18/ticket for ages 2 & up! Would love to take my daughter, but not at that price!


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I keep going back to this cigar. Always consistent , smooth and great tasting .
I keep going back to this cigar. Always consistent , smooth and great tasting .
Although I m not usually a maduro Person the MX2 was outstanding! Got one in a sample pack and ordered a box after smoking this gem!
This MX2 Dagger the most amazing small cigar I ve ever had. I often share them with friends and they always get extremely high praise. I ve been smoking these little guys in my hot tub and on my deck while grilling for more than five years and I ve yet to experience an issue with poor draw. I give it 9 out of 10 for it s class!
I smoked this cigar for the first time tonight. I'd never had a CAO before but I was curious so I picked up the Mx2 box press. Boy am I glad I did! I've only been smoking cigars for about a month and the Mx2 is by far my favorite of all the cigars I've tried. Great burn and draw, and a decent amount of billowy smoke. I didn't experience the wrapper issues until the very end I smoked it the nub! but the box press is a bit spongy to the touch. I honestly didn't want to put this cigar down. I see a lot of sites list it as a medium-full bodied cigar. I disagree. Its a solid medium. Its not at all overpowering at in strength or flavor. I loved it so much I bought another on the way out.
The cigar visibly was well constructed. It did burn a bit uneven, but I was smoking outside on a windy day. I was able to get it evened up without using the lighter. I thought the flavor profile was solid and my golfing partner even remarked at how good it smelled. IT'S not a Cuban and not a Padron, but for the price, I thought it was well worth the money. Just a step behind the Kristoff and Cain maduros which are smokes I'm pretty familiar with and enjoy immensely and use to measure against other cigars.
The only cigar I have found that gives me everything I'm looking for in a cigar. Flavor, burn, taste, and most importantly draw.
Sorry to say, but these sticks aren t even close to being worth the money - or any money. CAO appears to be good at writing hype but not so good at living up to their own hype. Not a hint of good, sweet maduro flavors, much less 2X. Buy something else.
I strong dont agree w first 3 reviews. no it is no way near a cuban. and the other two that said want worth the money or tastless are off too. this is a great brand, and a great cigar. i buy singles and and there one of my fav. if i dont buy em here i buy em in local store


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continued "It's hard to believe they've only been open one year. What did we ever do without them? I can't imagine them not being here," said Chamber President Lisa Salamon while introducing the award. "They remember their customers and greet them by name. You can always count on a warm welcome. Where else can you find puttanesca sauce around here?"
Izzy's offers a wide range of gourmet deli foods and market products, including fresh-baked breads, bagels, breakfast and lunch sandwiches, and craft beers. Kathy and David Waite, the owners of Izzy's, named their business after their daughter, Isabelle. Kathy noted that they actually carry four varieties of the puttanesca sauce that Salamon mentioned.
"They keys to our success have been the overwhelming support from our amazing community, including second home owners, our great staff, a very successful ski season at Gore Mountain, and the Saratoga & North Creek Railway," said Waite.
"We're always looking for ways to keep it fresh and unique, to meet and exceed our customers' expectations. Our community is really about relationships and supporting each other. We're excited and looking forward to another great year," Waite said while accepting the award with her husband.
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She voluntarily manages the gardens at the Ski Bowl and Gore Mountain, is head of the Outreach Center, volunteers as a ski patroller at Gore, is a wildlife rehabilitator and the invasive plant coordinator for the area, and runs Garnet Studio in North River. Salamon noted that the evening provided "a rare sighting of Judy sitting down."
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MOUNT HOPE, W.Va. -- Cristah Artrip may be working a cash register at the Boy Scout's National Jamboree, but the Winfield resident couldn't be more excited to take part in the first jamboree held in West Virginia at the new Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in Mount Hope.
The 17-year-old, who will be a senior at Winfield High School, is working as a volunteer through the Venturing Crew, a youth development program through the Boy Scouts that is open to men and women between the ages of 14 (13 with eighth-grade completion) and up to 21. This is the first jamboree that has been open to Venturing crews, adding to the estimated 40,000 scouts and staff that are staying on site.
Artrip was introduced to Venturing Crew by a friend when she was a freshman. She is fond of the outdoors and community service, so the program seemed like a good fit. And she's getting both at the jamboree.
Working there also is helping her build the resume she needs to earn a bronze award. But it was as much about celebrating West Virginia as anything else.
"It's in West Virginia. That's a big deal," Artrip said. "It's nothing but impressive. It definitely makes me proud to be from West Virginia."
It's also been a lot of fun. She has made many new friends, including her two bunkmates who are in Venturing crews in Florida and Texas. Artrip also has gotten to experience much of the high-adventure thrills that were built at the Bechtel Family Reserve, including the zip lines and mountain biking.
She also has enjoyed chatting with scouts and visitors who come through her checkout line. She said many people have been talking about how great the scouting camp is and the welcoming feel they've received from West Virginia.
"I'm so proud that 50,000 more people could appreciate the beauty our state has," Artrip said.
Like many at the jamboree, meeting new people can spur lifelong friendships or open up doors for the future. That happened to Artrip while walking on one of the trails. She met a couple and struck up a conversation. When Artrip mentioned that she would like to go into the medical research field, they put her in touch with a friend who is a doctor in California who worked on the HPV vaccine.
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Recently I read a question on how to say I like you in French. None of these answers provided the expression 'je te kiffe', although I'm quite sure it is used very often. Is there a different context for this expression, or is it even out of date? What is its real meaning?
"Kiffer" is a derivative of "kif", which comes from Arabic meaning "hashish" (or at least something related to hemp, I'm a bit short on serious references), figuratively "sensation of pleasure (due to hasish)". It usually means to appreciate, to enjoy, to like. I'm not sure it's still in use nowadays, but it was enough in the nineties to warrant its apparition in Le Robert 1, 1993 edition.
In Walloon secondary schools some fifteen to twelve years ago, however, the verb's more usual meaning was simply "to smoke weed".
In any case, I've only encountered it in familiar register.
"kiffer" for us is "to like" but you can't use it all the time.
It used to be used mainly by teenager, but now it's used by more or less everybody. It is a very familiar word/expression.
You can't say that to everyone, you should use it just with friends and family.
As a french girl, I use it all the time. The real word to "to like" is "aimer".
So for example, to say :
It would be :
but I'll say (with all my friend) :
If you say to someone "je te kiff" it should be for your friends, not the girl you love or really appreciate.
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But in the NTM song "Ma Benz" there is a line,
so it probably could, in some contexts, have a nastier sense of physically pleasuring someone. Maybe it's just making out (snogging for Brits), but in the context of the song, it might possibly be a new euphemism for having intercourse, or simply be a direct translation to "pleasuring" in a broader generic sense. I'm not even French, let alone live in the téci, so I have no idea.
"Kiffer" means "to like" but it's slang, and it's totally ghetto <= see what I did there? It's about the same level of colloquialism…
I would recommend you just don't use it. It's not rude per say, but it's rather unsophisticated and will sound really weird coming from a foreigner.
I wouldn't advise you to use "je te kiffe", unless you want to say it to a friend who said it to you. When young people say "je te kiffe", it can mean "I like you", either in terms of friendship or slight dating interest.
But it can also mean "I like your personality" or "I like your body", the latter being highly improper when said to a stranger. It's like a cheap "you're nice" or "you're pretty".
You can "kiffe" anything - "je kiffe cette chanson" (I like this song"), "je kiffe ta veste" ("I like your jacket") - but it's teenspeak, and not considered a proper French word.
Sir, that's a very slang term (whatever that actually means) for saying "I appreciate you a lot".
Often used by younger people like teenagers.
Although, this suffers from a lot of prejudices (thus I feel I really shouldn't say more. I don't want to tell prejudices about anyone).
This is often used to imitate / picture / caricature teenagers living in HLMs (wich they can refer to the "téci", verlan of "cité" - look at wikipedia, or "banlieue", the "suburb") who have their own style (which I cannot describe here shortly as easily), sometimes called "caillera" (verlan of "racaille", translated to "scum" by Google trad) (though that word is, IMO, a bit too strong).
In particular, we often see/hear this kind of sentence: « Hé mademoiselle, j'te kiffe ! Tu me files ton 06 ? » which has many, many variants.
I think though it was more often (and commonly) used in the 80s or 90s in general (I mean just the verb "kiffer" in general, like for instance: « J'kiffe grave ce que tu fais »)


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