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can anyone translate this phrase from French to English?

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Please translate the part in inverted commas:

Drole et vrai, plein de rebondissements et dote d'une psychologie rare dans ce domaine, GTO "met en scene des adolescents en quete d'identite comme il en existe partout".

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Do you need a literal translation, or do you need to understand the meaning?

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it needs not to be literal, I just cannot understand the sentence structure

so please tell me what it means =)

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Sakuranbo wrote:Drole et vrai, plein de rebondissements et dote d'une psychologie rare dans ce domaine, GTO "met en scene des adolescents en quete d'identite comme il en existe partout".
It means that GTO directs (or features - I don't know what GTO is) some teenagers who are in search of their own identity, as there are everywhere (teenagers like that can be found everywhere).

So the structure is: GTO met en scène des adolescents / ces adolescents sont en quête d'identité / il existe des adolescents en quête d'identité partout.

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merci beaucoup!

for your information, GTO is a Japanese television series in the context. btw, how do you type accented alphabets on the internet? :roll:
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Sakuranbo wrote:merci beaucoup!

for your information, GTO is a Japanese television series in the context. btw, how do you type accented alphabets on the internet? :roll:
alt+0232 = è
alt+0223 = é
alt+0235 = ë
alt+0224 = à

etc...
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To type accented letters, use the program "charmap" that comes with Windows. It gives the code for accented letters. "À" is ALT 0192 for example.
If you don't use windows, I don't know where you can find these codes, but they are the same.
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frantsuz wrote:To type accented letters, use the program "charmap" that comes with Windows. It gives the code for accented letters. "À" is ALT 0192 for example.
If you don't use windows, I don't know where you can find these codes, but they are the same.
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There are such programs for most OS:s. At least on the OS:s that coul be useful for accessing the internet :lol:
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Sakuranbo wrote:btw, how do you type accented alphabets on the internet? :roll:
You can also set up your keyboard as a French one (settings, control pannel, keyboard, add language...).
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Beaumont wrote:
Sakuranbo wrote:btw, how do you type accented alphabets on the internet? :roll:
You can also set up your keyboard as a French one (settings, control pannel, keyboard, add language...).
If you do so, note that accented letters with "¨" or "^" on them need to type the accent (both are on the key right to the "P", use SHIFT for the second) first, then the letter on which you want the accent. Other symbols used in french are typed directly (é is on the "2" key, "è" on the "7", "à" on yhe "0" and ù two keys after the "L". Most letters are in the same location, except for Ainverted with the Q, Z and W, and M with ;.
Most other symbols are mixed up, you'll have to try them to find out where they are, or find a picture of a french keyboard somewhere on the internet, I'm sure there's a website with pictures of all keyboards.
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frantsuz wrote:I'm sure there's a website with pictures of all keyboards.
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/refe ... oards.aspx

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merci beaucoup!!! :P
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