R
Roedy Green
see http://mindprod.com/applets/inwords.html
and ask to see Swiss Vaudois French of any number you key in
see http://mindprod.com/applets/inwords.html
and ask to see Swiss Vaudois French of any number you key in
T
Thomas Fritsch
Roedy Green said:
Sun offers the book "Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines", which is also
available online at http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/index.html .
In http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/Appendix.C.html there are
localization lists of ~350 GUI words/phrases for several european and asian
languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Japanese,
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean).
My opinion (as a native german speaker) is, that they hit the common german
terms in most cases quite well. Some english terms are correctly left
untranslated in german. For example, english "plug-in" becomes "Plug-in" in
german (instead of literally translated to "Einstöpsel-").
Their french words are (as I guess) the ones used in France, which may
differ from those in Switzerland or Canada.
R
Roedy Green
Quote:
"You are here : home : Java Glossary : F words : French."
Hmm, I thought F-word meant something else
LOL. Both of us. I suppose though technically French is an F-word.
Z
zero
Actually I believe it is. Ordinary is "of the order", meaning just like
everything else.
R
Roedy Green
You want to look up the phrase "Pardon my French"
Check the other mindprod glossary.
http://mindprod.com/ggloss/french.html
H
Hendrik Maryns
Roedy said:
For this purpose, there is this nice dictionary for dutch:
vertaling.vrijschrift.org. It is a sort of cooperation between
different groups of open source translation teams.
Also, kde-nl has a very nice dictionary:
http://www.kde.nl/helpen/woordenlijst.html
H.
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Hendrik Maryns
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www.lieverleven.be
http://aouw.org
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Chris Uppal
zero wrote:
[me:]
You may very well be right. I was going by the OED from which it appears that
the ordin* words have entered English via either Old French or directly from
Latin. That might be a sufficient reason to claim that (in English) one ordin*
word was in a different cluster from another one, and that was the view I was
taking earlier, but -- having gone back for a second look -- I'm no longer
sure.
In any case, since we are talking about a French word here, the distinction is
immaterial...
-- chris
[me:]
You may very well be right. I was going by the OED from which it appears that
the ordin* words have entered English via either Old French or directly from
Latin. That might be a sufficient reason to claim that (in English) one ordin*
word was in a different cluster from another one, and that was the view I was
taking earlier, but -- having gone back for a second look -- I'm no longer
sure.
In any case, since we are talking about a French word here, the distinction is
immaterial...
-- chris
R
Roedy Green
S
Stefan Ram
Roedy Green said:
The above quotation is from a discussion regarding my lists [1]
of translations between Englisch and German terms.
In order to clarify how to read these lists and also as my
contribution to the discussion about the quality of these
lists, I would like to announce that I now have added the
following remark at the top of these two pages:
»This page is not a replacement for a general dictionary,
but intended to be consulted as an addendum to a general
dictionary. It gives in parts special translations that
might be missing in general dictionaries or it gives
additional commentary to a word.«
Some translations given were chosen with great care. For
example, some translations reflect the outcome of
comprehensive Usenet threads about a translation, others were
written after I read dozens of web pages about a term or
phrase, others reflect choices made in the German technical
literature, like the translation of »override« according to
Guido Krüger, other translations might reflect my position
within a dispute about the proper translation, other
translations might be downright wrong indeed, reflecting my
incomplete knowledge.
[1]
http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/englisch_woerter_de
http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/woerterbuch_deutsch-englisch_de
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steve_marjoribanks
Re: the French use of ordinateur instead of computer...
I was once told that the French carried on using ordinateur instead of
computer because computer pronounced in a French accent sounds
remarkably like cont puter (not sure this is spelt correctly!) which
has an entirely different meaning!!!
Steve
I was once told that the French carried on using ordinateur instead of
computer because computer pronounced in a French accent sounds
remarkably like cont puter (not sure this is spelt correctly!) which
has an entirely different meaning!!!
Steve
S
steve_marjoribanks
Should be con pute, although I'm not actually sure of the thruthfulness
of that story!
of that story!
D
Darryl Dufour
(e-mail address removed) a écrit :
In french we thought thas these machines were to make order between
information or data.
In english you thought that was for calculations or computing.
Thst's all. I didn't anderstand what you mean with cont puter, but it's
the same kind of difference between mastering a problem (french) and
controling a problem (english)
It's only the origin of the words.Re: the French use of ordinateur instead of computer...
I was once told that the French carried on using ordinateur instead of
computer because computer pronounced in a French accent sounds
remarkably like cont puter (not sure this is spelt correctly!) which
has an entirely different meaning!!!
Steve
In french we thought thas these machines were to make order between
information or data.
In english you thought that was for calculations or computing.
Thst's all. I didn't anderstand what you mean with cont puter, but it's
the same kind of difference between mastering a problem (french) and
controling a problem (english)