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Re: RookChat - French/Other Translations
Posted By: Etienne, on host 66.130.230.125
Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 13:10:18
In Reply To: Re: RookChat - French/Other Translations posted by Mensekemeser on Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:55:35:

> If Etienne shows up again sometime, he might be able to do the French translation, although that would be Québecois French and I'm not sure how much that differs from plain French. I don't know who else would know French here.
>

There aren't many differences. There's something we call "International French", wich is basically, well, actual French without regionalism.

The sticky wicket is the technical term. IE, email. Until recently, the accepted term in France was mèl, wich... Well, it's like spelling email differently, and forgeting the e. Québec had courriel, and the Académie Française finally accepted that... Two months ago?

Chatting, in Québec, is know as clavardage. In France, I believe it's Tchatter. With a T.

There's a big socio-cultural thing to explain why they use bastardized English words and we don't, but... I won't get into that.

Eti"J'email, tu emails, il email, nous emailons, vous emailez, ils/elles emailent"enne

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